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 PREFACE. 
 
 THE Author having been faid both to have 
 adhered too clofely and deviated too widely 
 from hiftoric truth in this Tragedy, the following 
 extracts from Lord Littleton's Hiftory of Henry II. 
 are given to (hew how far either of thefe opinions 
 may be juft. 
 
 " From Gervafe of Canterbury we learn, that Philip 
 demanded back his filler, who, having been many years 
 accorded to Richard, was not yet married to him, but 
 was kept like a captive, uncrer Uriel: cuftody, by King 
 Henry in England. 
 
 " If Henry (as fome modern hiftorians have fuppofed) 
 was afraid of contra&ing another alliance with the 
 French royal family, from the experience he had of the 
 bad effedls of that which his eldefl fon had made, he 
 fhould not have fvvorn to let this be accomplished, but 
 fliould have reftored the Princefs to her brother, whe- 
 ther he did, or did not, admit the pretenfions of that 
 King to Gifors. For, he could have no right to detain 
 her in his cuftody one fmgle day, after he had refolved 
 to break the match, on account of which me had been, 
 fo many years before, entrufled to his care. The defire 
 
 he
 
 iv PREFACE. 
 
 he had fhewn of marrying her to John, inftead of 
 Richard, had been dropt in the year eleven hundred and 
 eighty-five, and could not now be refumed confidently 
 with the oath taken by him in the year eleven hundred 
 and eighty-fix. Nor is it faid by any one contemporary 
 writer, that he made mention of* it in the conferences 
 now held with the King of France on this fubjecr. It 
 was, therefore, extremely difficult to juflify or excufe 
 his not doing one of thefe two things, either marrying 
 Adelais, without delay, to Richard, or fending her back 
 to her brother. When wife nien aft unwifely, the caufe 
 muft be ufually fought for in their paffions. I therefore 
 cannot doubt, that the real motive of his otherwife unac- 
 countable conduft was a pamonate love for this Princefs". 
 It has been mentioned before what reafon there is to 
 believe, that he had fought a divorce from Eleanor his 
 wife, by the authority of Pope Alexander the Third, 
 which would, if obtained, have enabled him to wed: 
 Adelais himfelf : but, even when this had been refufed, 
 he might Hatter himfelf, that fome of Alexander's fuc- 
 cefibrs would be more complaifant ; or that Eleanor, 
 who was old, might die before him, and leave him free 
 to make this lady his queen. Love too eafily hopes what 
 it ardently wifhes ; and the fuppofing him under the ty- 
 ranny of that paffion, which is commonly attended with 
 a greater degree of dotage in elderly men than in young, 
 unravels the whole myftcry of his prefent and fubfequent 
 proceedings. For it was natural, if he loved Adelais, that 
 he mould rather incline to rilk a war (however dangerous 
 it might be) than to think of parting with her, and deli- 
 vering her to her brother, who might prefently marry her 
 to another Prince." LYTTLETON, p. 345. 
 
 To
 
 PREFACE. v 
 
 To this paflage there is a note in the Appendix, 
 vindicating Henry from the charge of having fe- 
 duced Aclelais. 
 
 " A contemporary writer fays, that Philip in this con- 
 ference, reconciled Richard with Henry ; but could not 
 reconcile John, who was then making war, in another 
 part of France againft his father. And almoft all the 
 hiftorians of that age agree, that, after the taking of 
 Mans, John did join in the league which Henry's ene- 
 mies had concluded. This defertion muft have been the 
 fudden effeft of fome offers, made to him by his bro- 
 ther, in which he thought he mould better find his ac- 
 count than in any benefits which his father, who was 
 not likely to live long, could effectually beftow. And I 
 think it more probable, that intelligence fent to Henry 
 of his having taken arms againft him in Normandy in- 
 formed that King of his treafon, than that he learnt it, 
 (as Hoveden fays he did), by Philip's communicating to 
 him a lift of an aflbciation againft him, at the head of 
 which was Prince John. In whatever manner he knew 
 it, the knowledge proved fatal. The agitation of his 
 mind had lately been too great for a body grown' infirm. 
 He was now in the fifty-feventh year of his age. Thofe 
 paflions which have naturally the moft hurtful efFefts on 
 the human conftitution, anger and grief, tore his heart. 
 In his quarrel with Richard he had not been wholly 
 blamelefs ; and a fenfe of this made the evils it had 
 brought upon him more painful. But the enormous 
 ingratitude, and horrible perfidy of his moft beloved fon, 
 whofe exaltation he was eagerly, and dangeroufly for 
 himfelf, endeavouring to procure, gave him a much 
 A deeper
 
 vi PREFACE. 
 
 deeper wound, the anguifh of which, concurring with the 
 lhame of receiving terms of peace, impofcd by his ene- 
 mies, and mortifying to him, though not very grievous, 
 threw him into a fever. The day after the laft conference 
 he was carried on a litter to the caftle of Chinon, and there 
 took to his bed. His fon, the Chancellor, had obtained 
 his leave to be abfent, when the treaty was figned, that 
 he might not be a witnefs to his humiliation ; but, being 
 informed of his illnefs, he haflened to Chinon, and find- 
 ing him fo oppreft with the violence of the fever, that 
 he could not fit up in his bed, he raifed his head by fup- 
 porting it upon his own bofom. Henry fetched a deep 
 figli, and turning his languid eyes upon him faid, " My 
 " deareft fon, as you have, in all changes of fortune, 
 " behaved yourfelf mod dutifully and affe&ionately to 
 " me, doing all that the befl of fons could do, fo will I, 
 "If the mercy of God (hall permit me to recover from 
 " this ficknefs, make fuch returns to you, as the bell of 
 " fathers can make, and place you among the greateft 
 " and moll powerful fubje&s in all my dominions. But 
 " if death lhall prevent me fulfilling this intention, may 
 " God, to whom the recompence of ail goodnefs be- 
 " longs, reward you for me." " I have no wifh (re- 
 " plied his fon) but that you may recover and may be 
 " happy :" after which words he rofe up, and, unable 
 to reftrain his gufhing tears, left the room. Yet, 
 hearing foon that no hopes of life remained, he re- 
 turned to perform the laft duties to his father, who, 
 roufedfrom a kind of trance by the lamentations he ut- 
 tered, opened his eyes, which had been for fome time 
 clofed, and, knowing his fon, made an effort, with a 
 faint and almoft extinguifhed voice, to exprefs a defire, 
 that he Ihould obtain the bifhoprick of Winchefler, or 
 
 rather
 
 PREFACE. vii 
 
 rather the archbifhoprick of York. Then taking from 
 Ills finger a ring of great value, which he before had 
 intended to preient to his fon-in-law, the King of Caflile, 
 he gave it to this Lord with his lafl blemng, and com- 
 manded that another, which was kept in his treafury as 
 his mofl precious jewel, fhould be alfo delivered to him. 
 After this he funk down, and in a fhort time expired." 
 LYTTLETON, B. v. p. 262, 263. 
 
 The Chancellor mentioned here was Geoffry, 
 Ton to the King by Rofamond, and brother to 
 Longfword, Earl of Salifbury. As a fighting pre- 
 late would not be in character in thefe days, the 
 author has reprefented him under his mother's 
 name, Clifford, as a young warrior, who devotes 
 himfelf to the church in confequence of grief for 
 the death of his father. 
 
 Henry was fo fenliblc of his filial piety, that on 
 a former occafion he faid that his other fons, by their 
 condiifl, had proved themfelves bqftards, but this 
 alone had Jhe\vn Jimijelf fo be really his true and legi- 
 timate fin. 
 
 BOOK iv. p. iys. 
 
 A 2 PROLOGUE
 
 PROLOGUE. 
 
 ADDRESS TO THE TRAGIC MUSE, 
 
 WRITTEN BY 
 
 WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ. 
 And Spoken by Mr. C. KEMBLE. 
 
 Thou ! around whofe throne, in awful ftate, 
 By Fear and Pity rang'd, the pallions wait : 
 At whofe commanding call, from every age, 
 Hofts fwept by death from Nature's changeful ftage , 
 Chiefs, and ftern patriots, and the fcepter'd train, 
 Rife from the tomb, and glow with life again ! 
 Before thy lifted eye, th' Hitloric Mufe 
 Prefeuts the pageant of her paflmg views ; 
 And, on the column of recording time, 
 Points fculptur'd groups of Virtue, Woe, and Crime. 
 
 Tamer of Man ! beneath thy boundlefs reign 
 Wild Fancy (hapes her vifionary train, 
 Embodies airy beings all her own, 
 And rules, with wizard wand, the world unknown ; 
 Leagues the weird Sifters where the night-ftorm raves, 
 Drags howling fpcclres from reluctant graves; 
 Bids fear, with icy dew-drops, freeze th frame, 
 When horror broods o'er t( deeds without a name " 
 From realms of tortur'd fpirits lifts the veil, 
 And half reveals th' unutterable tale. 
 
 Yet, fov'reign of the foul ! thy fway refin'd, 
 Charms while it awes, afflids, yet foothes the mind : 
 Guardian of moral fenfe, and feeling fliamc, 
 Firm guide of Virtue, mafk'd in Pleafure's name : 
 Lo ! on Guilt's glowing cheek, ftrange drops appear, 
 Where burns, like molten lead, the new-born tear : 
 
 JLu
 
 PROLOGUE. ix 
 
 Lull'd by thy voice, the painful ftruggles ceafe, 
 Mild Melancholy breathes returning peace ; 
 Repentance forms a wifh to be forgiv'n, 
 And Angels waft a pray'r half-breath'd to Heav'n. 
 
 Oh ! while thy forceful ftrokes at will controul, 
 Or tender touches humanize the foul ! 
 Send Terror forth, the vengeful goddefs guide, 
 Tame the mad infolence of earthly pride ; 
 Each dire viciflltude of life reveal, 
 Till trembling tyrants fear what wretches feel ; 
 Send Pity forth, and while her fuafive pow'r 
 Allures to woe the fadly-pleafing hour ; 
 To cold Profperity's ftrange gaze expofe 
 The painful image of unnotic'd woes ; 
 Nurfu the foft fenfe that man to man endears, 
 And foothes the fufferer in the vale of tears. 
 
 Fix'd on this bafe, our Poet refts his claim, 
 And wooes, in your applaufe, the voice of fame ; 
 On Englifh annals builds hiftoric rhymes, 
 And calls the fpirit forth of feudal times ; 
 Such, as of old, to Syria's fhouting coaft 
 Led lion-hearted Richard's Chriftian hoft ; 
 When England's King the red-crofs flag unfurl'd, 
 And darken'd in its fhade the Pagan world. 
 Such, as of late, in Heav'n's appointed hour, 
 Gaul's vaunted Idol drove from Acre's tow'r; 
 When Crofs and Crefcent in juft league combin'd, 
 Smote, in his pride, the murderer of mankind : 
 While Albion's naval Hero foremoft ftod, 
 Scatter'd the Hoft that fcorn'd the living God ; 
 And Alia, refcu'd from th' OpprefTor's might, 
 Hail'd Allah's name, and crown'd the " Ckrijlian Knight.' 9 
 
 EPILOGUE
 
 EPILOGUE. 
 
 WRITTEN BY J. TAYLOR, ESQ. 
 And Spoken by MISS MELLON. 
 
 WHAT an odd creature was this Gallic maid, 
 To feck a cloifter's melancholy (hade, 
 Whilft a young ardent lover, high in arms, 
 Submifiive bow'd before her conqu'ring charms ! 
 Grant thee the father would fupplant the fon, 
 The double vicVry by her graces won, 
 Should but have fir'd the nymph to take the field, 
 In the proud hope a thoufand more might yield: 
 Beauty mould gain new laurels every day, 
 And nobly aim at univerfal fway. 
 Belicles, to give fome glory to the thing, 
 Her venerable victim was a King ; 
 And then how vaft the triumph, to enfnare 
 The fam'd gallant of Rofamond the fair ! 
 Unhappy Rofamond, whofe piteous fate, 
 Love, with a figh, for ever fhall relate ! 
 
 But to our play The heroine's cafe was hard, 
 So oft to wedlock near, fo oft debarr'd ; 
 And then that meddling prieft to intefere 
 When youthful paffions urged their fond career, 
 Bid the poor fwain,to Paleftine depart, 
 That he might lofe his head as well as heart. 
 Why, if the man had known his place aright, 
 He would not fep'rate lovers, but unite ; 
 His duty was to join love's gentle elves, 
 And as to parting leave it to themfelves : 
 
 Or
 
 EPILOGUE. xi 
 
 Or if there needs another's help, at leaft, 
 'Tis bus'nefs for the lawyer, not the prieft. 
 Nay, had this legate paus'd a week, or fo, 
 The fpoufe might then have been content to go, 
 And rather rufh amid the martial ftrife, 
 Than wage clofe warfare with a wrangling wife. 
 Well! women muft be ftrangely chang'd, I vow, 
 No girls from lovers fly to convents now ; 
 None here will hide in difmal dens from man, 
 But range the world, and conquer all they can. 
 Now to our bard The man pretends to fay, 
 There's more of truth than fidion in his play ; 
 If fo, from him avert all hoftile aim, 
 And e'en let goffip Hiftory bear the blame.
 
 PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. 
 
 King Henry ................ MR. AICKIN. 
 
 Prince Rlcliard .............. MR. KEMBLE. 
 
 Prince John ................ MR. BARRYMORE. 
 
 Clifford, afon of King Henry by 
 ' 
 
 Rofamond - C ' KEMBLE * 
 
 Legate .................... MR. CORY. 
 
 Officer ..................... MB. MADDOCKS. 
 
 N 
 
 Adelaide, Jifter to Philip King 1 
 
 of France ............... J Mlls - SIDD NS- 
 
 Emma ..................... Miss HEARD. 
 
 Abbefs .................... MRS. COAXES. 
 
 Soldiers and Attendants. 
 
 SCENE, Chinon in France.
 
 ADELAIDE: 
 
 A 
 TRAGEDY. 
 
 ACT I. 
 
 An Apartment in the Palace. 
 PKINCE JOHN and CLIFFORD. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 WHENCE fprings this new delay ? For fix 
 long years 
 
 Has Adelaide been Richard's dcftin'd bride, 
 Iloftuge of Peace between the rival nations. 
 Yet fome vain fubterfuge, fome weak exeufe. 
 
 Ever defers the nuptials. 
 
 ' 
 
 PniSCE.JOHX. ; ; T 
 
 Richard s temper , ,^Q 
 
 Accords but ill with this protr 
 I dread the event. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 The fad reverfe of fortune 
 
 That mark'd his laft revolt, when, join'd in arms 
 
 With faithlefs Philip, his victorious Ivvord 
 
 Scatter'd our force, might teach our ageci raonarab 
 
 Not wantonly to roufe again hi^ fury. 
 
 Now too, when circled by unnumber'd foes 
 
 Far from the coafts of England Our thin fqua- 
 
 drons 
 
 To Richard all attach'd, and only waiting 
 llis fignal to revolt. 
 
 B JRLNCfi
 
 10 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCP: JOHN. 
 Well you know 
 
 The jejflohrfpWt of my father's counfels; 
 Ever fufpicious of his fqns. I fear 
 Some bufy tongue has whifper'd to his mind, 
 Too apt to liften to fuch idle rumours, 
 Doubts of my brother's faith. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 May ruin fcize 
 
 Such turbid fpirits, who with doubts diffract 
 
 The peace of human kind ! Difunion now 
 
 Is fraught with fure cleftruction All our provinces 
 
 In France will fnatch the firfi pretence to fliakc 
 
 Our tottering power. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 My father builds his hopes 
 On other grounds The chiireh's interference. 
 Philip and Richard, fir'd by youthful ardor, 
 Have vow'd to lead their powers on Afia's plains 
 Againlt the impious Saracen ; and now 
 A holy Legate, from the Court of Koine, 
 Is every hour ex peeled to demand 
 Their inftant aid. Victorious Saladin 
 O'erpowers the Chriftian force wins back their 
 
 conquefts 
 
 And threatens to difplay his filver crefcent 
 O'er Salem's hallow'd altars. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Henry never 
 
 Can be fo rafh, fo loft to every fen ft- 
 Of honor or of prudence, now to fuller 
 His interference to prevail. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN". 
 
 Not fuffer 
 
 The full accompli foment of fchcmes he plannel 5 
 Fruftrate his own deaVns ? I'm much d -ceivM, 
 
 Or
 
 A TRAGEDY. 11 
 
 Or he has us'd his influence to engage 
 The Legate to pcrfift in his demand. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 If this be true, ah ! what can -be the event 
 But fliame and ruin ? Tho' the youthful prince^ 
 Are prompt enough with ardent zeal to follow 
 This meteor of renown, which oft has led 
 Europe's bold Ions to diftant war, they never 
 At fuch a moment, when the mingled claims 
 Of glory and of love demand their ftay, 
 Will blindly follow Rome's imperious mandate. 
 Some deep myfierious caufe mult lurely urge him 
 To fuch a rafli attempt. 
 
 PIUNCK JOHN. 
 That caufc to mo 
 
 Is not fo deep a in} fiery. The paffions 
 Of Henry are no lecret ever ready 
 To catch at beauty's flame. Not jealoufy 
 Of Philip's arts, or Richard's ram ambition, 
 Is the true caufe of thele fufpended nuptials ; 
 There is another jealousy lair Adelaide ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Bafe and injurious flander ! not within 
 Loofe probability's extremeft verge ! 
 If Henry's firmer years have felt the power 
 Of beauty's charms too llrongly, is it likely, 
 Worn as he is by time, and fad misfortune's 
 Still ruder fhocks, which with apparent clTort 
 Have min'd the powers of life, he now ihould throw 
 One thought that way ? No ! Other cares than 
 
 love, 
 111 fuited to his years, now rack his bofom. 
 
 PRINT R JOHN. 
 
 That I can hardlv credit I, who know 
 
 How oft his breuti has bnrn'd with lawlcfs paffion. 
 
 The lingering embers of habitual vice 
 
 B -2 Will
 
 l Hi ADELAIDE: 
 
 Will faintly glow amid the fro ft of age. 
 How oft his confort, royal Eleanor, 
 Has wept his wandering fancy ; while her fons, 
 The generous offspring of a legal bed, 
 Have fccn their father's favor bafely lavifh'd 
 Upon a fpurious brood ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 This, fir, to me, 
 
 Is barely fliort of infult ! Happy were it 
 For Henry's peace, if all his legal fons 
 Had learn'd the pious claims of filial duty 
 From thofe whom you have cenfur'd. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 You are warm ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Yes, I avow the charge ! I boaft, with pride, 
 
 A lineage fprurig from one of gentle manners, 
 
 As well as graceful form and noble birth. 
 
 Nor can I envy, while my fond remembrance 
 
 Recalls rny mother, haplefs Rofamond, 
 
 The turbulent fuccefibrs of a queen 
 
 Fierce and ungovernable, whole ftern paffions 
 
 Sow'd thorns of ibrrow in her hufband's bed, 
 
 And train'd her fons to treafon and rebellion ! 
 
 Your infults I defpife yet my breaft glows 
 
 With indignation, to behold a fon, - 
 
 At fuch a time, when danger lowers around us, 
 
 Try to excite confufion by a tale, 
 
 The mofl improbable that hell-born malice 
 
 Could e'er fuggeft ! I go to crofs your fcheme?, 
 
 To counteract fuch arts as far at Icaft 
 
 As my w.eak power avails. I go to keep 
 
 The few, but valiant, troops that I command, 
 
 Free from your wiles, and firm in their allegiance 
 
 PRIXCI:
 
 A TRAGEDY. 13 
 
 PRINCE JOHN, alone. 
 Go and exult in your illuftrious birth, 
 And honeft folly Thefe uncertain hints, 
 Or I am much deceiv'd, will find from Richard 
 A better welcome. His unguarded paffions 
 Will catch at once the probable fufpicion, 
 And kindle into rage. My mother's arts 
 Have fet afide the infant Arthur's claim, 
 And well I hop'd this frantic hero Richard 
 Would leave his bones in Paleftine ; while I 
 Stood fair for England's throne. This purposed 
 
 marriage 
 
 May bar my expectations 'Tis not Rome 
 Will check his courfe, while love for Adelaide 
 Inflames his boforri I muit move his fancy 
 To doubt her faith My father ! 
 
 Enter KING HENRY. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 I am much 
 
 Perplex'd your doubts alarm me yet I dread 
 
 Impetuous Richard's violence, fhould this marriage 
 
 Be once again poftpon'd. Added to this 
 
 Is not my faith to royal Philip pledg'd ? 
 
 By folemn treaty pledg'd ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 That folemn treaty 
 
 Deprives you of your crown For know, the mo- 
 ment 
 
 The altar fcals the. nuptial vows of Adelaide, 
 Falfe Philip join'd with my unnatural brother 
 In impious league, will feize upon your perfon, 
 And place the crown of England on the brow 
 Of Richard. 
 
 KIN T G HENRY. 
 
 Monftrous perfidy ! If this 
 Be true f 
 
 PRINCE
 
 34 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Has ever yet my faith to you 
 
 Been tainted by the breath of foul fufpicion : 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Never, my duteous fon yet thefe dire tidings, 
 
 So fatal to my peace, this cruel treachery, 
 
 Have pierc'd my foul with anguifli. But, does 
 
 Philip 
 
 So poorly deem of England's potent monarch ? 
 IK Henry's name in arms fo little known, 
 That he can for a moment think I'll yield, 
 Nor ftrike a blow for freedom and for empire ? 
 Roufe all my gallant warriors ! We will meet 
 His coward perfidy with manly vengeance. 
 
 PRIXCE JOHN. 
 
 Where are thofe gallant warriors ! Diftant far 
 From England's happy fhores and faithful fwains x 
 True to their Prince of Egbert's royal line 
 Guarded by doubtful Normans All your hope 
 Is to delay "thefe nuptials. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 How delay them ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 The Legate. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 What of him ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 He is, I know, 
 
 Employ 'd by Rome to haften the departure 
 
 Of Philip and my brother for the plains 
 
 Of holy Paleiline. And yet, perhaps, 
 
 Even Rome's commands may not be proof again ft 
 
 The arts of their ambition. He may barter 
 
 The church's intereu for the gold of France 
 
 Then counteract their fchcmcs in private fecond,
 
 A TRAGEDY. 15 
 
 By fplendid gifts and ample promifes, 
 The Legate's perfeverance. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 With reluctance 
 
 1 yield to fuch a meafurc dire neceffity 
 
 Alone compels me. O my fon, beware 
 
 How you permit your bofom e'er to harbor 
 
 The demons of ambition. Did you know 
 
 The fcorpion thoughts that fling a monarch's heart, 
 
 When bafe ingratitude, with envious eye 
 
 Surveys his pureft aclions, and imputes 
 
 His befl: deiigns to tyranny and pride, 
 
 YOAI would avoid the fplendid load of empire 
 
 As the word burthen Heaven can lay on man. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Such is the language of a fickly mind 
 Sated with power. My free, undaunted fpirit 
 Looks up with eager tranfport to this burthen, 
 This fplcndid weight of royalty ; nor fears 
 To meet the glorious toil that empire brings. 
 My brother here ? 'tis well now art affiit me. 
 
 . Enter PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 ) give my pafftons way my tortur'd bofom 
 Is torn, is agitated, ev'n to madnefs ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 What has enrag'd you thus'? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Have you not heard ? 
 
 Henry has found another mean pretence 
 
 To crofs my promis'd nuptials, tho' confirm M, 
 
 By folemn oath, between the rival monarch*!. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Say on what ground ? 
 
 PRINCE
 
 16 ADELAIDE! 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 The caufe afligned is this. 
 He waits the arrival of the Roman legate, 
 To ratify his right to thofe dominions 
 Which Philip gives in dower with Adelaide 
 Injurious claim ! Muft Rome's encroaching prieft 
 Thus with our treaties interfere ? Shall we 
 Shall Europe's independent monarchs lurfer 
 Such grofs indignity ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 But you are bound 
 
 By holy ties you have affum'd the crofs ; 
 Till you are freed from thofe by Rome's decrae, 
 You cannot wed. 
 
 PRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 Let the proud Roman pontiff 
 
 Beware how he offends me I am {till, 
 
 A few fliort months firfl to my love devoted, 
 
 Ready to lead our gallant Englifh troops 
 
 To check the furious Saracen. If thus 
 
 He dare infult the champion of the crofs, 
 
 Will Richard draw a fword in fuch a caufe ? 
 
 Confufion ! Do my fufFerings move your mirth ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Indeed they do not. Yet I fmile to fee 
 You turn your anger on the Roman pontiff, 
 When nearer much, perhaps, the real caufe 
 Of this delay may lie. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I'm loft in wonder 
 
 Ten thoufand wild conjectures cloud at once 
 My troubled fenfes. Tell me inflant tell me, 
 Where your fufpicions point. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 Enquire no more 
 
 Perhaps 'tis mere conjecture, and my thoughts 
 Would but diftracl you.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 17 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Brother, is this well ? 
 Is this a friendly part ? Your cooler temper 
 Feels not the whirlwind of tempeftuous paffion 
 That tears my ftruggling bofom. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 My furmifes, 
 
 Devoid perhaps of truth, might raife that paffion 
 
 To giddy violence let me be lilerit 
 
 I have faid too much already. 
 
 PIUNCE RICHARD. 
 
 If you know 
 
 Aught that concerns my peace, at once unfold it. 
 
 To play thus with my paffions, nor becomes . 
 
 A brother nor a friend. Thofe names are canccll'd 
 
 If longer you reftifc to clear the myftery 
 
 That hangs on all your words. 
 
 PIUNCE JOHN. 
 When thus adjur'd, 
 
 Tho' heaven knows how unwillingly, I give 
 7^he fecret councils of my bofom. Know 
 Your Adelaide has charms in other eyes. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Amazement ! It can never be. Who dares 
 Even caft a look toward her form even a thought 
 That tends that way ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 O there are daring fpirits, 
 
 Who, feeling love's ftrong influence, will attempt 
 
 Whate'er that love fuggefts. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 But let that hero, 
 
 That daring fpirit, guard his bofom v: 1 1 
 
 A gain ft my juit relentment. By the powers, 
 
 The awful powers of vengeance, fafcr might he 
 
 C Snatch
 
 13 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Snatch from the famifh'd pard his prey, than crofs 
 My love for Adelaide ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 And yet 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Yet what ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 PerhnpS I am deceived ; perhaps my fancy 
 Too freely conftrues what my eye obferycs. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Your eye obferves ? Curfe on your hefitation, 
 Speak out at once, and give me inftant eafe ; 
 Even torture is a blifs to what I feel ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Collect yourfelf be calm and I will fpeak. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Well, I am calm ; proceed. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Then I fufpetf 
 
 Your father is your rival. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Ha ! my father ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Does that excite your wonder ? Is his heart 
 Dead to the power of beauty ? He has eyes- 
 And Adelaide has charms. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Henry my rival ? 
 
 It cannot be. Slave as he is to paffion, 
 
 It's wildeft ftretch of fury ne'er could drive him 
 
 To fuch a monflrous thought to fink within him 
 
 All lenfe of (liame I never can believe it. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 You muft be right I'm glad you take it thus 
 'T\vas only rny fufpicion, fir ft excited 
 
 By
 
 A TRAGEDY. 39 
 
 By too officious friendship. Henry's care 
 For your eternal welfare, folely moves him 
 To wait the purpofe of the Roman See. 
 We know his pious zeal, his warm attachment 
 To Rome's dominion. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I am undeceiv'd 
 
 Your words have flafh'd conviction on my foul.. 
 
 And is it thus ? Is this the kind return 
 
 Of love parental for my faithful fervice ? 
 
 Was it for this, in many a bloody field 
 
 My daring arm pierc'd thro' lerne's fquadrons, 
 
 And crown'd his brows with conqueft ? While 
 
 thcfe limbs 
 
 Brav'cl in his caufe the adverfe elements 
 A father recklefs of his fon, and breaking 
 Vows form'd in the face of Heav'n, violating 
 The facred laws of hofpitality, 
 My deareft fights invaded. 
 It is too much, my agonizing foul 
 Burfts at the thought. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Yet, hear me for a moment. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 O! you have rais'd a temped in my foul, 
 And every calmer thought is driv'n before it 
 Yes, I will have revenge my fvvord (hall right 
 
 me 
 
 T h e duty of a fon, a fubje.cTs faith, 
 B y this foul deed are void. Had I no friend, 
 No brother, no companion fworn in arms, 
 W ho w r ould with generous force oppofe fuch ty- 
 ranny, 
 
 And fhield my plighted bride ? O torture ! tor- 
 ture ! 
 
 C 2 Perhaps
 
 io ADELAIDE: 
 
 Perhaps the fickle fair one yielded up 
 
 Her eafy faith at once Perfidious Adelaide ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN". 
 
 Retrain yourfelf give not the rein to fury 
 Sufpend your violence 'till clearer proof 
 Confirm this tale of guilt. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 What clearer proof 
 
 Can there be of her falfehood ? Had (he not 
 
 Liften'd with pleafure to my father's vows, 
 
 I (hpuld have fhar'd her grief The horrid tale 
 
 Conceal'd from me, proclaims her infamy. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Perhaps her timid caution threw a veil 
 Over his bafe defigns, left indignation 
 Should drive you to fome fatal act. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Such caution 
 
 Was treafon to my love. But here I vow 
 To leave her and thcfe guilty walls for ever 
 The vile abode of outrage. Triumph, Philip ! ' 
 I come once more to combat on your fide. 
 Yet, ere I go, perfidious, cruel maid, 
 I will again behold you, will upbraid you 
 With this unheard-of bafenefs. 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 If you prize 
 
 Your juft revenge, your honor, fhun, O fhun 
 The dangerous interview Her fyren tears 
 Will (hake your finnncfs. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 What are tears to me i 
 
 n I have proof of her inconftancy 
 ,-nven on my heart, in character's 
 No circurnftancc can alter. Were fhe fairer 
 
 Than
 
 A TRAGEDY. 21 
 
 Than love itfelf could fancy Ah ! what fancy 
 Can image beauties fairer than her own 
 She fhould not dupe the injur'd foul of Richard 
 No I will fcorn her wiles, and proudly tell her 
 I laugh at ties her perjur'd heart has broken. 
 
 END OF THE FIRST ACT. 
 
 ACT II. 
 
 Scene, another Apartment in the Palace. 
 Enter ADELAIDE and EMMA. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 MADAM, forgive the fond folicitude 
 That on your penfivc folitude prefumes 
 rafhly to intrude. Thofe plaintive fighs, 
 That look of forrovv, when your deareft wifhes 
 Seem plac'd within your reach, awake my wonder. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Alas ! my Emma, tho' the fmiles of peace 
 
 Have fmooth'd the rugged front of war, and 
 
 Richard, 
 
 My bofom's lord, will foon receive my hand, 
 Given with a father's and a brother's fanclion, 
 I feel a load of forrow on my foul ; 
 And my prophetic fears, in fpite of reafon, 
 Subdue my wearied fpirits. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 Thus it happens, 
 
 That wayward fancy will imagine ills 
 To wound the breait of peace ; and when the fub- 
 
 ftance 
 
 Of real evil is o'crcomc, the mind 
 Conjures up lhadows of ideal woe. 
 
 Why
 
 S3 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Why turn unthankful from the prefent good, 
 To fix your eye on viflonary forms 
 Of fancied grief. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Alas ! the trembling heart 
 
 That long has felt the oppreffive hand of forrow, 
 
 Diftrufts each tranfitory gleam of joy, 
 
 And doubts the fmiles of fortune. O my Emma, 
 
 Unnumber'd dreadful images of horror 
 
 Diftracl: my thoughts. Henry's ambitious mind, 
 
 My brother's reftlefs fpirit, and the fire 
 
 That animates my Richard's ardent temper, 
 
 Speak to my fh udder ing bread a thoufand dangers, 
 
 Awake a thoufand fears. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 Brave tho' he is, 
 
 And truly noble, yet I own the warmth 
 
 Of Richard's paffions flames with fuch impatience, 
 
 As mocks the guard of reafon. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 O ! his foul, 
 
 However fierce, when roufed by fenfe of inm !\ 
 
 To me is gentler than the mildeft breeze 
 
 That fans the bloom of Spring. He is all kindnefs. 
 
 To thee, my Richard, is my bofom drawn 
 
 By a rcfiltlefs force. Thy fame, thy virtues, 
 
 Even thy defecls, are dearer in my eyes 
 
 Than all the world united. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 Yet his paflions 
 
 Are quick and eager ; and when once excited, 
 As uncontroulablc as winds and waves, 
 When roars the wintry tcmpeft Even his love 
 Is mingled with a fervor that alarms me, 
 When I reflect how much your gentle bofom 
 May fuffer from it's violence. 
 
 ADELAIDE.
 
 A TPxAGEDY. 23 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Sometimes 
 
 I own the fame reflections wake my fears 
 
 Yet, when I fee his noblenefs of foul, 
 
 A heart incapable even of a thought 
 
 That borders on difhonor, and whofe feelings 
 
 The eye at once can read, his faults are loft 
 
 In the bright radiance of iurrounding virtues. 
 
 Then he redeems his errors with fuch kindnefs, 
 
 Such warm excefs of tendernefs and love 
 
 I fee you fmile, my Emma, at my wcaknefs. 
 
 EMMA. 
 Madam the Prince 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Leave me, my gentle friend. [Exit EMMA. 
 
 Enter PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Am I permitted ere I go for ever, 
 
 And take a hated objecl from your fight, 
 
 To fpeak a few fhort words ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 What mean thofe accents, 
 
 Faltering and wild, thole looks of indignation? 
 
 What has difturb'd you thus : 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Perhaps you thought, 
 Becaufe my bofom is not prone to doubt, 
 And where I gave my heart, I alfb gave 
 My warmeft confidence, it was impoffible, 
 (Almoll indeed it was) that glaring falfchood 
 Could alter my opinion'; and you wonder 
 To find your arts could ever be unraveli'd, 
 Or I could fee when you dcfired to blind me. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Is this reproach to me ? Have I deferv'd . 
 
 This
 
 24 ADELAIDE: 
 
 This mean fufpicion ? On what bold pretence 
 Do you arraign my faith ? Some envious tongue 
 Has blafted my fair fame ! But let the traitor 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Madam, beware For' know, the indignation 
 That on the brow of flander'd innocence 
 Shews lovely, and is thron'd in dignity, 
 Speaks in the frown of guilt a harden'd mind, 
 That braves the fenfe of (hame. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Sir, could I bear 
 
 This taunt of infamy with brow unruffled, 
 
 I fhould by acquiefcence give a colour 
 
 To this unmanly ftroke of coward malice. 
 
 But, by the voice of .confbious truth acquitted, 
 
 I fcorn its efforts, and I court the conflict. 
 
 To the fevered teft, let malice bring 
 
 My every adtion Point one guilty ftairi 
 
 To blot my fpotlefs fame, my blamelefs faith 
 
 To vows, once breath'd to you, ere frantic paffion 
 
 Thus taught diftemper'd jealoufy to flart 
 
 At felf-created phantoms. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 This is al! 
 
 Your fex's art, fcreening your own inconftancy 
 
 Beneath a lover's weaknefs, and excufing 
 
 Your own mean falfehood by the ftorm of jealoufv 
 
 Excited by that falfehood. Think again 
 
 Search well your inmoft foul, and anfiver truly, 
 
 If I am not betray \1. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 No on my honor 
 
 Not even in thought by me. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD 1 . 
 
 Falfe maid, beware 
 
 Honor's a (acred name, by which adjur'd 
 
 Even
 
 A TRAGEDY. 25 
 
 Even open guilt, that is not funk by meannefs, 
 Debus'd, as well as profligate will paufe. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 This is too much ! Have I deferv'd this ufagc ? 
 Knighthood fhould blufh, bafely to injure one 
 Without a friend to right her; left an hofuu-e 
 Here among ftrangers yet I have a brother 
 Ah no ! ralh Philip is a rude ailbeiate 
 Of your defigns. I am alone deferted 
 The mock of fortune. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 You the mock of fortune ? 
 
 Is England's monarch then, is potent Henry 
 
 Become fo low as not to have the power 
 
 To vindicate his rriiltrefs ? Does that wound you ? 
 
 I fee the confcious guilt glow in your face 
 
 Your blufhcs fpeak your falfehcod. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Yes the blood. 
 
 Rous'd by the fcnfe of virtuous indignation. 
 Mounts to my cheek, to hear the bale afpcrlion 
 By cruel malice frain'd. My Lord! My Lord! 
 There needed not this fubtle veil of (lander 
 To hide your wavering heart. O you were fivt: 
 To follow your own will you might have left me, 
 Have gone where proud ambition's gilded trophies, 
 Or newer charms, had lurM you, and not form'd 
 This wretched fcheme, improbable as fulfe, 
 To ftain my virgin fame. J was deceive 
 I thought that bofom, tho' the (lave of pnilion, 
 Was more the (lave of virtue, and could never 
 Harbour a thought that honor dif'ivow'd. 
 How has my heart been frozen oft by terror, 
 When I have pidlur'd to mylelf the dangers 
 That might await your rafhnefs, and have lecn you 
 In fancy's eye, borne from the fatal combat 
 
 D A bleeding
 
 26 ADELAIDE: 
 
 A bleeding corfe. What are my fufferings now ? 
 
 To view t'he idol of my adoration, 
 
 The image of all glory, all perfection, 
 
 Form'd by my partial love, defac'd, and mangled 
 
 By this injurious itroke of mean fufpicion 
 
 O ! 'tis too much it rives my tortur'd foul. 
 
 [Supports herjelf 'again/I the Scene-. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 What have I done ? My ram impetuous frenzy 
 O'erpowers her gentle frame I cannot leave her 
 In this diftrefs humanity forbids it. 
 Look up, my Adelaide ! 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 That well known voice 
 
 Recalls my wandering fenfes But, alas ! 
 
 Where are the gentle kindnefs, and affection. 
 
 That once attun'd each accent of that tongue ? 
 
 You now arc anxious to fuppofe me guilty, 
 
 And liften to the mod unlikely talc 
 
 That mpnftroiis calumny could e'er invent, 
 
 With, credulous prejudice. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Howe'er my foul 
 
 Started with horror at the direful thought 
 Of your inconftancy, you cannot doubt 
 My earned wifh to find you innocent. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 What can my innocence avail, if thus 
 Each groundlefs doubt cnflames your jcalouly ; 
 And every talc, that bufy fcandal frames, 
 Condemns me in your eye, while accufation 
 Alone is proof of crimes that trembling nature 
 Sickens to think of. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 O ! my Adelaide,, 
 
 Wound
 
 A TRAGEDY. 27 
 
 Wound not rny bofom farther deign to clear 
 This myftery of fate ! My ear (hall drink 
 Each word with dumb attention ; and iny k>ve 
 Shall turn the fcale of juftice on your fide 
 With partial fondnefs. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Such partial fondnefs 
 
 I once had claim'd, and gloried in it's caufe. 
 
 I now fhould only aik for rigid juftice, 
 
 Could I defcend fo low as to defend 
 
 Aly flander'd innocence But know, my heart 
 
 Difdains the thought ! If you fuppofe me guilty, 
 
 Is it not worth'my flighteft care to fhew 
 
 The injurious falfehood ? -I forfwear your pre- 
 
 fence ! 
 
 Enjoy your frantic vifions! yet, when time 
 Shall vindicate my pure, my fpotlefs fame, 
 My faith to you unfliaken, then, perhaps, 
 You may, too late, repent the haity paliion 
 That wrong' d me by fufpicion ! 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 O 1 you wound 
 
 My heart with piercing anguidi ! Will you leave 
 
 me ? 
 
 Leave me for ever ? Not one parting look 
 To chear my dark defpair ? - Am I your fcorn ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 No! though we part for ever falie and faithlefs 
 
 As your mifguiding frenzy deems me, yet 
 
 ril not conceal my thoughts. Heaven is my wit- 
 
 nefs, 
 
 My vows to you have ever been inviolate 
 As veftal purity ; and rafh, and cruel, 
 As you have been, the weaknefs of rny bofom 
 (O ! that I now muft call by fuch a name 
 A palfion that was once it's fbndeft pride) 
 
 D 2 Is
 
 23 ADELAIDE! 
 
 Is flill to you devoted ; nor can ever 
 Another image fill the aching void. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 O, agony of grief ! what angel ibftnefs 
 My cruel doubts have injnr'd. Adelaide I 
 You cannot leave me thus. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 What ! can you afk me 
 
 Again to come a voluntary victim 
 
 To your unjuft fufpieions ? Not alone 
 
 The feelings of my heart my fame, my honor 
 
 Demand the facrincc ! But time, nor change, 
 
 Shall ever win me to another's arms. 
 
 Let that fuffice 'tis all that I can prorhife. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Behold me at your feet ! My faltering voice 
 Can fcarccly breathe the prayer my foul iuggefis - 
 The imperfect accents die upon my tongue. 
 Turn not away your eyes ; nor, cruel, hide 
 The fweet effufion of repentant mercy 
 That fwclls their moiften'd licLs. For pity's fake 
 Tear not my bofom thus ! Let not a few, 
 A few unguarded words by madnefs utter'd, 
 Plunge me in endlefs mifery. If ever 
 You really lov'd ! 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Alas! that I have lov'd. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Have lov'd ! cliftracling retrofpecl: of blifs 
 Which my mifguided violence has blalted. 
 And is it pa ft ? Am I belov'd no more ? 
 Can you pronounce that cruel doom ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 I cannot 
 
 Yes Spite of all the injuries I fufter, 
 
 U'hc fatal weakiK'is lingers in my breaft. 
 
 PRINCE
 
 A TRAGEDY. 25 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 O call not mercy by fo harfh a name ! 
 And will you quit me then ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ought I to ftay ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Compel me not thus to condemn myfelf. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Say what wild (tart of frenzy could induce you 
 To charge me with a crime of fuch a dye ; 
 To think that I could liiten to the vows 
 Of one, if he were bafe enough to breathe them., 
 Whom folemn tics of fanciimonious awe 
 Precluded from the thought of Richard's father. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 A love like mine flaming almoft to madnefs, 
 So often crofs'd by danger and delay, 
 Shrunk at the (hade of fear. My father too 
 The fury of 'his pnffions, his rafh power 
 Eager to violence. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 What was his power, 
 
 His paffion, Sir, to me ? If he could harbour 
 So dire a thought Say what had I to fear ? 
 Was I expos' d to danger ? England's monarch 
 Is not an Afian defpot, nor the filter 
 Of royal Philip, tho' the pledge of peace 
 Between two hoflile realms, an eaftern flave. 
 Whole dark fufpicion could fuggeft the thought ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 My brother. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 beware his artful wiles. 
 
 1 would not hardily fpeak of one who (hares 
 
 Your
 
 3d ADELAIDE: 
 
 Your confidence, or entertain fufpicion 
 But on the ftrongeft grounds Yet I muft own 
 Inhere is a lowering gloom hangs o'er his brow, 
 A fullennefs of afpec\ that repels 
 All generous intercourfe. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Yet recollecl 
 
 That Henry fti'il has fought each vain pretence 
 How to elude thefe nuptials that he only 
 Has yielded to the dread of Philip's power ; 
 That even now he is employing arts 
 To bring the Roman Legate to defer 
 Our long expected union. Weighing this, 
 And knowing how much intereft and ambition 
 Should prompt him even to urge our fpeedy nuptials. 
 Were he not fvvay'd by fome more powerful motive ; 
 My long experience of his headftrong paffions 
 Which age has yet not wcaken'd never check'd 
 By aught in it's purfuit all thefe combined 
 Confirm my brother's doubts. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Awful heaven ! 
 
 If this be ib if thofe by thee entruft ed 
 To guard the rights of others, are the nrft 
 To violate the neareft ties of nature 
 Ah! where (hall perlecuted innocence 
 Be fhielded from oppreffion ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Can you pardon 
 
 The frantic ravings of outrageous paflion, 
 That with blafpheming voice prefum'd to full^ 
 Your fpotlefs innocence ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Of that no more 
 
 For we have other cares Alas ! my Richard, 
 
 Tour ficiings have akrm'd me. If your father 
 
 Can
 
 A TRAGEDY. 31 
 
 Can entertain the purpofe you have hinted, 
 
 Which yet I hardly think, one only way 
 
 Can fhield me from his power the cloitier's (helter. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 And are the hopes you gave me funk already ? 
 Have I but dreatrfd of bills ? Condemn'd to wake 
 To cruel certainty of lading woe ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 I do not mean fcclufion from the world 
 
 By vows irrevocable Ah, I feel 
 
 My foften'd heart too much to you devoted 
 
 For heaven to claim it folely I will take 
 
 Protection of the altar for a time, 
 
 Till kinder liars, and happier hours awaits us. 
 
 Oppofe me not in 'this 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Your faintlike virtue 
 
 Is form'd to foften my too ftubborn temper 
 
 You rnuft you (hall bcmine the guardian powers 
 
 Who watch propitious o'er my country's welfare 
 
 Will fanclify the union, and my people, 
 
 When England's throne is to my care entruftcd, 
 
 Shall blefs the milder chanties that foothe 
 
 My fiery fpirit, and with grateful prayers 
 
 Purfue the gentler virtues of their Queen. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Farewell, my Richard and remember, Adelaide, 
 True to your love, and conftant to her vows, 
 Will neither adt, or fufTcr aught unworthy 
 Of Philip's filter, and your dcflin'cl bride. 
 
 Farewell my foul's belt treafure, and may angel?, 
 Bright as your form, and fpotlefs as your virtue, 
 Watch o'er your fleps. [Exit ADELAIDE. 
 
 Enfcr
 
 32 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Enter PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 The prelate Tent from Rome 
 Is jull arriv'd. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Well, then We now (hall fee 
 If Rome will obftinatcly nill iniift 
 On my raih vow, or be content awhile 
 To wait, 'till firft my nuptials are fulfill'd. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 The court of Rome will hardltf be perfuaded 
 Even to poftpone this promis'd expedition. 
 When all the Chriftian world, elate in arms, 
 Are eager to protect the holy towers 
 From Syria's conquering hoft. 
 
 PRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 She mutt pofipone it, 
 
 Or elfe the war will want the aid of England, 
 
 PRIXCE JOHN. 
 
 How will that found in the aftonifh'd ear 
 Of all aficmbled Europe, when around 
 Iler^ panting warriors croud, and martial rage 
 Beams from each eye, and glows in every bread ; 
 While every tongue (hall alk, but aik in vain 
 For Englifh Richard ? He, whofc radiant arms 
 Still glitter 'd in the dreadful front of battle, 
 And, like a flaming meteor^ led his fquadrons 
 To victory and fame ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Spare that reproach 
 
 J am not now to learn a foldier's duty, 
 
 Or catch the name of martial emulation 
 
 From bofoins cold as thine. My ardor yet 
 
 Has ne'er been faint, when glory bade it blaze. 
 
 The im warlike mind, to cafe and floth a Have, 
 
 My
 
 A TRAGEDY. S3 
 
 May in the filken lap of luxury 
 
 Slumber away it's honor but the heart 
 
 Fir'd by the generous flame of virtuous love 
 
 Acquires new courage from the godlike palRon, 
 
 And beauty leads to glory, and to conquelt. 
 
 Yes, Adelaide ! from thee my kindling foul 
 
 Shall catch congenial virtue. Loving thce, 
 
 I love the abftracl of all truth and goodnefs ; 
 
 And to dcferve thee, I muft learn to merit 
 
 True fame's unblcmifh'd wreath. Not the extreme 
 
 Even of punctilious honor, e'er can cenfure 
 
 The few fhort hours I fnatch from war and tumult, 
 
 To leal my nuptial vows. Then, from thy arm>, 
 
 The pureft temple of connubial faith, 
 
 Forth to the field of danger will I rufh, 
 
 A truer champion in the caufc of heaven, 
 
 And proud by deeds of manly hardihood, 
 
 To prove myfelf thy knight. 
 
 PRINCE JOHX. 
 I did not mean 
 
 To hint fufpicion of your well-tried courage, 
 But ftill the braveft are not fafe from (lander, 
 Whofc poifonous breath will blaft the fairelt fame, 
 Even on the flighted ground. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Then let the coward 
 
 Who wears the femblance of a worth he has not, 
 Shrink at her touch. For he whofe fame is bui't 
 On vain opinion only, and but reads 
 His claim to honor in the million's praife, 
 Falls with the bafelefs pedettal that rais'd him 
 But he whofe pride is founded on the bafis 
 Of confeious worth and felf-approving virtue, 
 Defpiles all the empty fneers of fcprn, 
 If by the voice of inborn worth acquitted. 
 
 E Come
 
 34 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Come then, my brother, let us feck this prelate, 
 And try if Rome has infolence to place 
 Her haughty foot on his afpiring head, 
 Who vows to lead her holy force to conqucft. 
 
 END OF THE SECOND ACT. 
 
 ACT III. 
 
 Scene an Abbey. 
 Enter ADELAIDE and EMMA. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 YE cloifter'd walls, whofe folemn gloom ex- 
 cludes 
 
 The buly tumults of a reftlefs world, 
 Well could I bury in your deep retreat 
 The cares and duties of a court for ever, 
 And give my days to folitude and peace. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 The gloom that hangs around this folemn manfion 
 Obfcurcs your better rcafon. Surely, madam, 
 You cannot entertain fo fad a purpofc, 
 You, who enjoy each gift of rank and fortune, 
 With beauty to enflame a ; rival world, 
 And a heart open to the warmed feelings 
 Of foft humanity ; not forrn'd to follow 
 The felfim call of lonely meditation, 
 But active in the nobler exercife 
 Of mild benevolence, and focial virtue. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ah ! what can -this avail, even if the picture 
 Which thy too partial fancy draws were true ? 
 Do paffions lead to happinefs ? The bofom, 
 To each fenfation tremblingly alive. 
 
 Feels
 
 A TRAGEDY. 35 
 
 Feels but the force^ of aggravated woe. 
 
 Why was I born to greatnefs ? O ! my friend, 
 
 The lowlieft village maid, whom humbler fortune 
 
 Has kindly placed within the happy circle 
 
 Of joy domeftic, feels a thoufand comforts 
 
 That I muft never know (he has a mother 
 
 To foothe her in diftrefs ; a father's counfcl 
 
 To guide her fleps ; a brother's arm to right her. 
 
 Have I a brother ? No ! for I was torn 
 
 From every dear connection, and furrcrider'd 
 
 A trembling hoftagc to a foreign court. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 Yet there were hours when royal Adelaide, 
 Tho' bred in England's hoftile court, bewail'd not 
 An abfent father, and a cliitant country. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ah ! why recall thofe days of fleeting joy, 
 That never muft return ? 'Tig true, my Emma, 
 There have been hours when your unhappy friend 
 Thought herfelf truly bleft when royal Henry, 
 By every gentle blandishment, alfuag'd 
 My rifing grief, and, with paternal fondnefs, 
 Left me no caufe to weep a father's abfence ; 
 Nor could I in my Richard's father fee 
 Aught but a parent fonder than my own. 
 But, ah ! thole Icenes are paft ; and their remem- 
 brance 
 
 Adds only forrow to my prcfent fate. 
 That once rever'd, once honour'd parent, now 
 Becomes the fatal object of my fears ; 
 While dark fnfpicion flieds a gloom of doubt 
 O'er all his actions, and each mark of fondncfs 
 Seems fraught with (hame and ruiq. 
 
 KJMMA. 
 
 Madam ! fee, 
 The King approaches. [(r&ztjemen, S 'lilcrg. 
 
 E 2 Enter
 
 36 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Enter K I N G H E x R Y. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Royal fir, this honor 
 
 I did not here expect I thought thefe cloiflcrs 
 
 Secure from interruption. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Why docs Adelaide 
 
 Court folitude and lilence ? Why prefer 
 The lonely horrors of this facred manfion 
 To fcenes of brighter afpect? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ah ! the fcenes 
 
 Of gay feftivity are little form'd 
 
 To drefs in fmiles the penfive brow, or focthe 
 
 A botbm loaded with opprcffive forrow. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 What forrow wrings your brcaft ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Sir ! can you afk ? 
 
 Am I not here detained a fplendid captive 
 
 Kept from a brother's arms ? 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 A tie, I hope, 
 
 Dearer than that of brother, foon will bind you 
 To think \ourfelf our daughter, and our court 
 The centre of your joy. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Tt will not ftain 
 
 The inodeft check of virgin purity 
 
 To own my bofom entertains that wifh : 
 
 But I comcfs the various ft range pretences, 
 
 By which you ftill elude the folemn treaty 
 
 With Philip ratified, and yet refufe 
 
 To yield me to my brother, move my wonder ; 
 
 And till that myftcry is clcar'd, I truft 
 
 ' You
 
 A TRAGEDY. 37 
 
 You will not deem me wayward, or capricious, 
 If I feclude my perfon from your court, 
 And fhun your prefcnce. 
 
 [Exeunt ADELAIDE and EMMA. 
 
 KIXG HEXKY, alone. 
 What can this portend ? 
 Her words betray miftruft and dilcontcnt ! 
 She plainly thinks I form fome deep defign 
 Againft her peace and honor. Each precaution 
 I take againfl her brother's hot ambition, 
 And Richard's treachery, fccms in her eye 
 An outrage to her fafety. Ha ! my Ion ! 
 
 Enter PRI-XCE JOHN. 
 
 TKIXCE JOHN". 
 
 1 but precede the Legate. He has enter'd 
 The abbey gates he comes to feck you here 
 My brother too. 
 
 KIXG HEXRY. 
 
 What ! Richard with the Legate ? 
 
 PRIXCE JOHX. 
 
 Yes He has urged him ttrongly to impart 
 The purport of his miflioti. This rcfufcd, 
 His anxious expectation leads him hither 
 To hear what is refolv'd. 
 
 KING HEXRY. 
 
 His heady violence 
 
 Diftracls my inmoft foul. O ! that his bread 
 Pofleis'd that ileady calm, that filial reverence, 
 That marks your words and actions. 
 
 PRIXCE JOHX. 
 
 Royal fir, 
 
 It is my pride, my happinefs, to (hew 
 
 My duty to your orders Would to heaven 
 
 My life coiild buy your peace ! Alas ! I fear 
 
 My brother. Yet 
 
 KIXG
 
 38 ADEDAIDE: 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Why that myfterious paufe ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 How can I fpeak ? I do not wifh to raife 
 Sufpicion in your mind and yet your fafety - 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 I charge you by the duty of a fon, 
 Which you have ever kept inviolate, 
 Difclofe your thoughts. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Your wifhes, fir, to me 
 
 Are ablblute commands all other cares 
 
 Yield to the ftronger claims of filial duty. 
 
 Know, then, impetuous Richard is determin'd, 
 
 Should Rome refufe to free him from his vow, 
 
 To quit thefe walls, and, join'd in arms with Philip, 
 
 Again renew the war. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Accurs'd effect 
 
 Of lawlefs luft of power ! Alas ! my life 
 Has been a fcene of trouble perfccutcd 
 By jealoufy of an imperious wife, 
 And her rebellious fons ; yet thou art true, 
 Thy faithful brcaft alone recciv'd no fpark 
 Of thy Hern mother's violence. 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 My lord, 
 Behold, the Legate comes. 
 
 Enter the LEGATE attended^ PRINCE RICHARD, and 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 Holy father, 
 
 With reverence that becomes the delegate 
 Of Rome's imperial pontiff, I receive 
 Your facrcd miilion, and with due obedience 
 
 Await
 
 A TRAGEDY. 39 
 
 Await his awful mandate. Does he fufFer 
 Thefe long protracted nuptials to proceed ? 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Your Ton to other duties is devoted 
 
 The caufc of heaven demands him. He is bound 
 
 By ties fuperior to all worldly claims 
 
 The church expects him now to head, her legions. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Behold me ready to obey her fummons ! 
 
 I only alk a tranfitory refpite, 
 
 To folemnize my plighted faith to Adelaide. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Altho' the church approves connubial rites 
 Nay, fanctifics their forms, they muft not clafli 
 With her immediate intercfts. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I am not 
 
 The flave of fenfual appetite thcfe nuptials 
 
 Are on no private intereft urged. I own 
 
 The powerful charms of Adelaide her beauty 
 
 And yet fuperior virtues fire my foul. 
 
 I own myfelf her flavc yet fond affection 
 
 Is not the only or the ftrongeft motive. 
 
 Two rival nations look with anxious eyes 
 
 To fee a union which, in common welfare, 
 
 Shall blend their jarring interefts. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 What's the welfare, 
 
 The temporal interefts of united Europe 
 To injur'd heaven ? Behold the facred. fields 
 By deluges of martyrs' bood ennobled, 
 Now defolate and wade, o'er-run by infidels, 
 Who fpoil the temples and pollute the altars 
 Rear'd to a prefent Deity ! Behold 
 The outftretch'd ann of vengeance now prepared 
 
 To
 
 40 ADELAIDE: 
 
 To ftrikc the blow vindictive ! Shall thy hand 
 Arrefl the awful bolt ? My fon, my Ton, 
 Let not del u five dreams of patriot zeal 
 Deceive your fancy ; nor beneath the (hew 
 Of public virtue hide the felfifh paffions 
 Enflam'd by female art ! 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Infulting prieft, 
 
 I tell thee the pure flame that fires my breaft, 
 
 By virtne fann'd, is what thy groffer lenfe 
 
 ^Feels not even in idea ! [_To KING HENRY] Sir,' 
 
 can you 
 
 Permit this fan&ion'd hypocrite to flandcr 
 The virtues of a Princefs you are bound 
 By duty and by honor to protect ? 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 You go too far by fuch injurious words 
 To ftain the reverend delegate of heaven. 
 Such infults unaton'd may draw upon us, 
 And on our guiltlefs fubjccU, the difplcafure 
 Of Rome's thrice holy fee. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Twcre well for Europe 
 
 Had fhe never fuffcr'd Rome's prefumptuous priells 
 To interfere, .or guide her various intercfts, 
 While on our ealy faith fhc builds her greatnefs, 
 And rears her empire on the neck of kings. 
 But, fir, I wifh the holy pontiff joy 
 Of his new convert. For the time has been 
 You were not quite fo zealous in his fervice ; 
 And when you found the growing power of Rome 
 Crofs'd your dcfigns, you mark'd your indignation 
 Even by her fervanfs blood and Docket's mur- 
 der 
 
 Stands in the (acred legends of the church 
 A witncfs of your violence. But when 
 
 The
 
 A TRAGEDY. 41 
 
 The reverend fquadrons combat on your fide, 
 Tho' in a cuufe 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Rafh youth, forbear nor thus 
 
 Arraign the pious councils of the church, 
 
 On love and mercy founded, nor prefume 
 
 To execrate a crime that (he has pardon'd. 
 
 Tho' dreadful was the deed, the guiltlefs blood 
 
 Of martyr' d Bccket has been expiated 
 
 By folenm rites of penitence and prayer. 
 
 TRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 By gold and by corruption, rather fay ; 
 For which you not alone function the crimes 
 Of facrilege and murder; but your voice, 
 With proitituted breath, abets the caufe 
 Of future violence, and fanclifies 
 Inceft and perfidy ! 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 I'll hear no more 
 
 Of this rude profanation ! But, young man, 
 Mark what I fay, and tremble. In the name 
 Of Rome's high fovereign pontiff, whofe decrees 
 The Chriftian world obeys I will pronounce 
 Your nuptials void, if you prefume to celebrate 
 The interdicted rite, before your vow 
 To heaven is fatisfied. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Thou dar'ft not do it ! 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Not dare ! Proud Prince, that will be inftant feen. , 
 Within thefe walls I reign fupreme. If once 
 I give the order, here (hall Adelaide 
 Remain the altar's votary from thy tight 
 And hopes, cut off for ever. 
 F
 
 43 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Prefurnptuous 'flave ! Firft this avenging 1 arm 
 Shall tree mankind from your infulting tyranny. 
 
 [Draws bisftvorJ, but is dijarmed. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Difarni his hcaclftrong rage ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 My Jord, confider 
 
 The confequencc of this your rafh attempt 
 Forbear what honor can your vengeance gain 
 Againil a prieft unarm'd ? 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 let his rage 
 
 Spend all it's idle force. By fanctity 
 Fene'd and protected, I defy his threats. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Thank not your vaunted fanclity, but thofe 
 Whole friendly force my lifted arm prevented, 
 And gave ine time to think. But 'tis enough 
 
 1 ne'er was recreant in the lifts of glory, 
 Nor have I when my honor flood engaged, 
 Much more my iblemn faith, fhrunk from the 
 
 conflict ; 
 
 But ere my fwfbrd iliall thus be proudly forc'd 
 To wage a war from which my injur'd heart 
 Now turns with indignation, I will throw it 
 For ever from my grafp. [To the KING] Sir, you 
 
 rnay glory 
 
 In this your proud ally The time may come 
 When you fhall feel his infolence, and mourn 
 The raih rcfolve that tempted you to raife 
 The ufurpation of a foreign power 
 To lord it o'er your own, your people's rights. 
 For me, I bend, not to his iron yoke, 
 But fiv indignant your.dilhonor'd court. 
 
 And
 
 A TRAGEDY. 43 
 
 And, haughty prelate, know the hour approaches, 
 When thou, and thy proud matter, fhall repent 
 The exercife of this officious zeal. [Exit. 
 
 KIN 7 G HENRY. 
 
 He's nrangely agitated. Much I fear 
 Some dread event from his ungovern'd rage. 
 Follow, my fon, and try to calm his pailions. 
 [PRINCE JOHN goes out after his brother, and the 
 reft on the oppoftte fide of tlie Jlaga. 
 
 Seem the outfide of the Abbey. 
 Re-enter PRINCE RICHARD and PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 'Why do you follow me ? 
 
 ' PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 I come to foothe 
 
 Your ardent grief, to mitigate your woes, 
 
 By friendfhip's lenient balm. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Not all the powers 
 
 Of friendfhip, or of love, can foothe a mind 
 
 Tortur'd like mine Hung by repeated infuit. 
 
 My only hope is vengeance ! That alone, 
 
 Tempts me 10 bear this hated load of life. 
 
 Ungrateful Henry ! When I led your armies, 
 
 I led them on to certain viclory 
 
 They have beheld me in the hoftile front 
 
 Of ndvorfe fquudrons they have felt my arm, 
 
 And fhrunk beneath the ftrokc. Once more I'll 
 
 bear 
 
 My cournge, and my fortunes to your foe 
 Again my arms fhnll fhine with dreadful raci 
 ]n the bright van of Gallia's rival hod. 
 Philip will not refute to own iny wrongs, 
 But crown rny fervice with its cleared hope, 
 And give his lovely lifter to my wifhcs. 
 
 F 'i PR:
 
 44 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 What will avail you aught the gift of Philip, 
 While Adelaide remains in Henry's power ? 
 
 PRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 True, but her heart is mine nor dare he force 
 
 Her prefent fan ciliary now too guarded 
 
 With greater reverence by the Legate's prefence. 
 
 PRINCE JOHX. 
 
 The Legate may be biafs'd. We have feen 
 How intereft and ambition fway his influence. 
 He may be brought to function violence 
 As well as perfidy and for the heart 
 Of Adelaide 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 'Twere facrilcge to doubt it 
 
 She is all truth, all conilancy, all virtue. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 It may be fo, perhaps But thro' the medium 
 Of fond affection's partial eye, her merits 
 May fhine with hcighten'ri luftre. My opinion 
 Of ifcmale virtue is not quite fo fanguine 
 Nor do I know the conttancy fo rooted, 
 As not to yield before the immediate profpcct 
 Of wealth and power. 
 
 PRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 O banifh from your heart 
 
 The demon of fufpicion, whofe foul breath 
 
 Poifons each generous thought; your vain furmills 
 
 Had nearly Waited all my hopes, and led me 
 
 To doubt the kindeft, and the pu reft love 
 
 That ev*r warm'd the brcaft of truth and beauty. 
 
 He who -believes no virtue can refift 
 
 Sclf-intcrcft and ambition, {hews himfelf 
 
 A Have to both. 
 
 PRINCE
 
 A TRAGEDY. 4-5 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 That undeferv'd reproach 
 
 Wounds not my confcious truth Be this the teft. 
 
 If you are really lov'd if her whole heart 
 
 Is to your wifh devoted if the -paffion 
 
 That Henry entertains is hateful to her, 
 
 And that the dazzling charm.* of proffer'd greatnefs 
 
 Sway not her refolutions, (he muft know 
 
 The abbey's walls yield but a weak defence. 
 
 Paint all her dangers to her, and perfuade her 
 
 To join your flight, and feek her brother's court, 
 
 As the fole means of fafety and p-oteclion. 
 
 If (he refufe this proof if here Ihe ft ay, 
 
 Trufting to Henry's power, whatever realbns 
 
 Her fophiftry may urge, his fuit is not 
 
 So dreadful to her feelings as (lie feigns. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I fee the horrors of her fituation, 
 And doubt not her compliance. Ah ! too well 
 I know the fervor of my father's paffions, 
 When rous'd by love or interclt. Adelaide, 
 You dhall partake my fortunes I will place 
 Your prefent danger in. fo ftrong a light, 
 That you muft be perfuaded, muft foriake 
 Thefe fatal cloiftcrs for your brother's court, 
 And the protection of a lover's arms. 
 Say, will you fliare my hazards ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 In your enterprife 
 
 With ardor I embark Yet let me pa ufe 
 Perhaps 'twere prudent not to joki you now. 
 Here I may do you better fcrvice Clifford, 
 That baftard fcyon from my father's Itock, 
 Is to his eaufe ftrongly attached His courage 
 And courteous manners make him popular, 
 And the few Englifh troops he here commands 
 
 Are
 
 46 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Are all at his devotion. I will try 
 
 To lure them from their chief, and win them over 
 
 To your defigns. When this I have effected, 
 
 I will avow myfelf, and boldly (land 
 
 The warm avenger of my brother's wroilgs. 
 
 END OF THE THIRD ACT. 
 
 ACT IV. 
 
 Scene a Court before the Palace. 
 
 PKINCE JOHN alone. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 THUS far my fchemes have profper'd : Adelaide 
 I know will never be induc'd to join 
 The hafty flight of Richard that refulal 
 Renews his jealoufy, and turns his love 
 To deadly hatred. Soft is that fo certain ? 
 The earneit fuit of Richard, and thofe doubts 
 Of Henry's purpofe which my art fuggefted, 
 May work upon her fears. She muft be ftopp'd. 
 And fee where Clifford comes his honeft zeal 
 Shall be the engine of my purpofe. 
 
 Enter CLIFFORD. 
 Clifford ! 
 
 In happy hour you. come ; your friendly counfcl 
 And generous aid are wanted. O I grieve 
 To fee the promis'd harveft of our hopes 
 Blafted fo foon. The demon of diflcntion 
 Now ftalks again at large. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 The legate's pride, 
 
 And Henry's blind compliance with his willies, 
 Have rais'd a temped that will pour its fury 
 On our diftriicled country.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 47 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Yes, my friend, 
 
 I am bewilder'd in the maze of dangers 
 That lie on every fide : but moft I fear 
 My brother's violence I know he meditates 
 A new revolt. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Cannot your words prevent him ? 
 You have his confidence. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 You might as well 
 
 Counfel the waves to filence when the tempeft 
 Sweeps o'er the boiling ocean, as perfuadc 
 His bofom to be calm when the fierce guft 
 Of fudden paffion heaves it. Much I fear 
 He will not quit alone his father's court. 
 He means to bear the lovely Adelaide 
 To Philip's camp, companion of his flight. 
 But this muft be prevented. She an hoftage, 
 We may make terms with her impetuous brother, 
 Who elfe, by Richard aided, threatens ruin 
 To our o'er-number'd force. Be it your care 
 To watch the abbey walls that (he efcapes not. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Yes, artful Prince and I will watch thee too ; 
 
 For much I doubt that thy infidious wiles 
 
 Have caus'd this fatal change. The breaft of 
 
 Richard, 
 
 You fay, is torn by paffion ! but whofe breath, 
 By falfe iniinuation, rais'd the tempeft, 
 And blew it into madnefs ? O'er our heads 
 Deftruclion hangs ; and thofe whofe timely care 
 Might ftay the impending ftorm, fway'd by in- 
 
 tereft 
 Or blind revenge, precipitate its fall. 
 
 One
 
 48 ADELAIDE: 
 
 One only chance remains. I'll try at lead 
 To undeceive the King, whofe eafy breaft 
 Perfidious John has poifon'd. If his fix'd, 
 His partial tbndnefs for him, makes him fcorn 
 My honcft counfe!, I difcharge my duty 
 To my inifguided Prince and injur'd country. 
 
 [Exit. 
 Scene the Abbey. 
 
 ADELAIDE alone. 
 
 Each ray of hope is loft I find the Legate 
 Refufes to releafe my gallant Richard 
 From his ra(h vow. Our nuptials are poftpon'd 
 Perhaps for ever! The events of battle 
 Who can forcfee! Befides, imperious Henry 
 May force me from the cloifters. No there is 
 One path that leads to fafety If I fee 
 Aught that appears like violence, the altar 
 Shall be my refuge I'll devote myfelf 
 By vows irrevocable, and afTume 
 The holy veil. O heavens, the prince ! 
 
 Enter PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 riUN'CE RICHARD. 
 
 My life, my lovely Adelaide ! 
 
 We are undone, inevitably ruin'd. 
 
 My father has prevailed Corrupted Rome 
 
 Abets his fchemes it is refolv'd to part us. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Alas ! I am not to learn the fatal tidings, 
 I am inform'd of all. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 And muft we part ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 The thought is death yet what alternative ? 
 
 I'BI.NCE RICHARD. 
 
 To fly. 
 
 ADELAIDE.
 
 A TRAGEDY. tej 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Iinpoffible ! 
 
 PPxIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 What ! (ball I fit 
 
 The pointed mark for injury and infult 
 
 To (hoot their arrows at ? tamely behold 
 
 The beit, the deareft rights of human nature 
 
 By facrilegious infolence invaded, 
 
 And, with the patient meeknefs of a hermit, 
 
 Bow to the ftroke, and kifs the hand' that wrongs 
 
 me ? 
 
 Not fuch my temper. No I have refolv'd 
 Inftant to fly from thefe ungrateful walls, 
 And join your brother's arms he will receive 
 The injur'd friend that Henry has abandon'd, 
 Efpoufe my cruel wrongs, and give me vengeance; 
 And from his hand I (hall receive thofe charms 
 My father's ihamelefs perfidy denies me.- 
 Why droops my love ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Your rafh rcfolve alarms me 
 
 Have you confider'd well, maturely weighed 
 
 Each confequence of this wild enterprife ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I have. The Norman troops are all to me 
 Firmly devoted; and the-Englifh warriors, 
 In numbers weak, and more than half, my friends* 
 Fear not, my love, this arm even from the (hadow 
 Of danger fhall protect you. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ah, my Richard ! 
 
 Your ianguine hopes deceive you there are dan- 
 gers 
 
 From which no force, no numbers can protect us* 
 G PRINCE
 
 50 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Thcfe are the coinage of your timid fancy- 
 Phantoms of fear. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Phantoms of fear ! O Richard,, 
 
 Are all the facred duties of our life, 
 
 The charities of love, the claims of virtue, 
 
 But merely phantoms? Say, are all the precepts 
 
 With care imprinted on our infant bofoms, 
 
 Which mark alone, or which fhoukl mark alone. 
 
 The pride of birth, the dignity of ftation, 
 
 Are thefe delufions all the mere inventions 
 
 Of human art, of prejudice and error ? 
 
 Is there no fear but what endangers life ? 
 
 Is to preferve a mifcrable being, 
 
 Debas'd by fervile infamy, degraded 
 
 By felf-condcmning conference, all our care ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 What action of my life has given you caufc 
 To deem my heart could entertain a thought 
 Of fuch unworthy meaimefs? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 No my foul 
 
 Acquits you of the charge. I know your heart 
 Is truly noble, and when clear reflection 
 Difpels the mifts that cloud your better reafou, 
 Will ftill purfue the (Lining track of virtue. 
 Look to the fields of glory, where your arm 
 lias lurn'd the fcale of many a bloody day, 
 And afk if conquclt came without a conflict. 
 Who gains a trophy from a foe unarm'd? 
 Nor lie in camps alone the liiis of honor. 
 O there are combats harder than the field's, 
 Where the infidious foe betrays within ; 
 And he whofe coward virtue only triumphs 
 When not atfail'd by trial and temptation,
 
 A TRAGEDY. 51 
 
 Is not true honor's fervant. 
 
 While from the fhadow of difgrace you fly, 
 
 You run to meet the fubftance. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Meet I not 
 
 The fubftance here does not her horrid form 
 
 Glare in my darting eyes where'er I turn ? 
 
 Here is her dire abode, and to avoid 
 
 The baleful obje&, I muft fly thefe walls. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Let not the enfuriate demons of revenge 
 Impofe upon your fenfes, and atfunie 
 The fpeeious form of honor. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Juft revenge 
 
 Is fanclified by honor, which without it 
 
 Becomes a lifelefs mafs. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 But who (hall judge 
 
 When our revenge is juft ? Not the Avoll'n bofom 
 
 Inflam'cl by recent injury. Revenge 
 
 Alone is juft when in impartial hands; 
 
 But there are fituations which difarm 
 
 Even juftice of her fivord No private wrong 
 
 Should cancel duties that we owe our country; 
 
 No infult arm a fon againft a father. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Such injuries as mine, nature revolts at, 
 
 And feels in fuch a ftrife her laws fufpendcd 
 
 My country will efpoufe my caufe. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 For which, 
 
 In friendly gratitude, you'll rafhly plunge her 
 
 In all the miferies of civil war. 
 
 But for a moment place the dreadful fcene 
 
 Before your eyes. Think only 
 
 G 2 PRINCE
 
 $2 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 I can think 
 
 Of nothing but of thce, and the dread horror* 
 To which 1 leave thee That (hall never be ! 
 The thought is madnefs Let us fly together. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 No if my prayers, my reafoning are too weak. 
 To turn you from your purpofe, lead you back 
 To the deferted paths of fame and duty, 
 I will be true to what I owe myfelf. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Heavens ! do I hear you right ? Do yon refufe 
 To (hare my finking fortune ? Were your vows 
 Of endlefs faith, unfhaken conftancy, 
 Breath'd to the winds ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 do not wrong me thus 
 
 The powers of earth and heaven can witnefs for me, 
 There's no extreme of wretchednefs and want, 
 
 1 would not ihare with you On the bare earth, 
 Expos'd to all the warring elements, 
 
 Sure of your love, and proud of conlcious innocence, 
 
 \ were fupremely bleil 
 
 Cut ah ! to feel myfelf the vile aflbciate 
 
 Of infamy and vice nay, more, the caui 
 
 It is a price too great to purchafe all 
 
 This world can give to purchafe even your love. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 And add, rny happinefs, my life. Alas ! 
 What do I fay? they are no longer clear 
 To Adelaide I am belov'd no more. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Bclov'd no more! And do rny weeping eyes, 
 My agitated bofom, ipcak indifference ? 
 But, ah ! what love can Jail that is not founded 
 On virtue and eftcern ? Your own cool judgment, 
 The raging florin of paffion once fubfided, 
 
 Would
 
 A TRAGEDY. 53 
 
 Would even defpife me, curfe the hated caufe, 
 That, like a wandering meteor, led your fteps 
 From honor's path, 
 And hate the partner of your infamy. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Hate thee ! By heaven, tho' now my laboring 
 
 fancy 
 
 Forms fuch dire images as almoft lead me 
 To doubts of horror, you engrofs my foul 
 Thought cannot paint the ardor of my paffion 
 I love you even to torture. Can it be 
 Can fuch a perfect form inherit falfehood ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 That mean infin nation would offend me, 
 Did not my foul partake the bitter anguifli 
 That wrings your bofom. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 And you pity me. 
 
 Ah ! what, alas ! is unavailing pity 
 
 To a diftracled wretch you will not fave ! 
 
 You talk of love and fondnefs, yet you fee me 
 
 'Whelm'd in a deep abyfs of mifery, 
 
 And will not ftretch a friendly arm to fave me. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Yes, I would fave you fave your peace, your 
 honor. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 What ! by the ruin of my fondeft hopes, 
 
 The fhipwrcck of my love ? For, in my abfencc% 
 
 Henry perhaps 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Am I fo mean an object, 
 
 So funk in men's opinions, that he dare 
 
 To offer violence to Philip's filler ? 
 
 PRINCE
 
 54 ADELAIDE: 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 By paffion urg'd, and Cure of prefent power, 
 The feeble image of a diftant danger 
 Will vanifh from his thought What fhall defend 
 Your innocence from violence ? 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Myfelf 
 
 My own determin'd will. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 We eafily 
 
 Dcfpife a danger which we do not fear. 
 I fee my folly now, that ftrove to wake 
 A fenfe of terror in a faithlefs woman 
 Of what fhe wifhes, and who now defpifcs 
 The wretched objecl: of her former love, 
 When plac'd in competition with a crown. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Eternal powers ! have I dcferv'd this ufage 
 This cruel imputation ? 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Your own heart 
 
 Muft arifwer, yes Even now your looks betray 
 
 The fecret of your heart. Perfidious maid 
 
 Tho* now to quit you rends my tortur'd heart 
 
 firings 
 
 Degenerate weaknefs down, nor let a tear 
 Bedew my burning check I tear myfclf 
 For ever from your prefence but, beware 
 My unexpected vengeance does not come 
 To interrupt your joys. [Rv/V. 
 
 JLnter EMMA. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 I met the Prince 
 
 In cruel agitation. Dearcft Madam, 
 What dire event ? Alas ! you fccm diforder'd. 
 
 ADELAIDE.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 55 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 iiinma, I am undone, for ever wretched, 
 Beyond imagination wretched ! doom'd 
 To mifery and woe. This dreadful ftrnggle 
 Is too fevere, I feel myfelf unequal 
 To bear the dreadful conflict. 
 EMMA. 
 
 JLct me (hare 
 
 Your grief, and lighten, by the voice of friendfhip, 
 This weighty load of forrow. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 While my tongue 
 
 Pleaded the caufe of duty, that idea 
 Aroufed my firmnefs now 'tis paft, and nought 
 Appears around me but a night of horror, 
 Scorn 'd and deferted by the man I love 
 O ! Richard, mud I never fee thee more ? 
 Is there no hope, no profpcct ? Where's the Le- 
 gate ? 
 
 Perhaps my tears, my fufTerings, may induce him 
 To change the rigor of the Roman edict 
 Where is he ? Say 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 Alas ! your hopes from him, 
 
 I fear, are groundlefs. He is with the king, 
 
 Who, as Prince John inform 'd me, now folicits 
 
 A difpenfation from the rites that bound him 
 
 To Eleanor his confort, with intent 
 
 To marry you himfclf. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 O ! monftrous effort 
 
 Of paffion unreftrain'd ! Then all the hopes 
 \\ ith which I fondly propp'd my drooping mind 
 Are vanifh'd to the winds my dreams of happi- 
 
 nefs 
 In this vain world arc. .over, and I fall 
 
 A facrifice
 
 56 ADELAIDE: 
 
 A facrifice to virtue. Heaven, who knows 
 The purenefs of my heart, accept my vows ! 
 For to the fad protection of the altar 
 I fly, from Henry's power I fly ! alas ! 
 That fuch a flight mud be from love and Richard. 
 For to my bofom, to my beating bofom, 
 In fpite of all his rafli injurious doubts, 
 His dear idea clings and makes this ftruggle 
 Worfe than the ftroke of death ! I will not think ! 
 Richard ! I now devote me to the altar, 
 Rather a vtclim of thy groundlcfs jealoufy 
 Than fear of Henry ! Come, my gentle Emma, 
 And hear me breathe the irrevocable vow ! 
 
 {Exctmt* 
 
 Scene, Apartment m the Palace. 
 
 KING HENRY alone. 
 
 I have been ill advis'd once more, I fear 
 The fatal flames of difcord will be kindled. 
 I feel the hand of time, by trouble ftrengthen'd, 
 Bear hard upon me I have not the powers 
 That firmer years, and brighter fcenes, once gave 
 
 me, 
 
 To crufli the pride of a rebellious fon, 
 And an unfteady people. 
 
 Enter PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Sir, I grieve 
 
 To wound your ear with the unhappy tale- 
 But my intemperate brother 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 What new ftroke 
 
 Of fate awaits me ? fpeak ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN, 
 
 To madnefs ftung 
 
 By the dccifion of the Legate, Richard 
 
 lias left this city, and is fled towards Paris. 
 
 KING
 
 A TRAGEDY: 5; 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Where were my troops ? What ! did they idle 
 
 ftand, 
 And let the traitor pafs ? 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 I grieve to fay 
 
 That you have been betray 'd ! The Norman horfc 
 Revolted with him ; all the reft hung down 
 Their heads in fullen filertce, nor would adl 
 Againfl a hero who fo oft had led them. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Bafc and degenerate cowards ! But my vengeance 
 Shall overtake your treachery. Bid my band, 
 My faithful band of England's gallant knights, 
 Arm and to horfe ! Myfelf will lead them on 
 To fcourge thefe renegades It will not be 
 Alas ! my fainting fpirits fink beneath 
 The weight of grief and age ; my feeble arm 
 Shrinks from it's purpofe O ! my fon, my fon. 
 Lend me thy aid. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Have courage, fir, revive, 
 
 Entruft to me your vengeance ; let me lead 
 
 Your warriors to the field. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 It (hall be fo. 
 
 Go to my faithful Englifh, roufe their rage 
 
 Againft thefe recreant traitors. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Sir, perhaps 
 
 They may difpute my orders. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Take this fignet, 
 
 They will obey that token. Hafte, my fon, 
 
 H Lead
 
 5$ ADELAIDE: 
 
 Lead them to the purfuit, and bring in chains 
 Thefe bafe deferters of their Prince and country. 
 
 [Exit PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 KING HENRY, 
 
 I feel the heavy load of fate prefs on me, 
 And bend me to the earth. Thefe darts of pafiion 
 O'erpovver my wain ing. ftrength my failing years 
 Are to my will unequal. Where are now 
 My friends, my children, who with lenient care 
 Should foothe the lapfe of age ! O, Richard t 
 
 Richard ! 
 
 Haft thou forgot the tears of penitence 
 Thatflow'd from Henry's eyes, what time he warn'd 
 
 thee, 
 
 With dying accents warn'd thee, to avoid 
 The crime of filial difodebience, which 
 His lateft hours embitter'd. John alone, 
 Of all the iflue of proud Eleanor, 
 Retains his duty. But here comes my Clifford, 
 The blooming offspring of a gentler race, 
 Sprung from my lov'd, my murder'd Rofamond ! 
 Whofe tried fidelity and gentle manners, 
 Endear him to my heart. 
 
 Enter CLIFFORD. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 O ! come, my Clifford, 
 
 And let me pour the forrows of my foul 
 
 Into your gentle bofom ! You, perhaps, 
 
 You too will join with Richard, and forfake me. 
 
 Ingratitude's the age's vice ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 O! fir, 
 
 Endear'd to me by every hallow'd tie 
 
 My king, mv mafter Shall my voice prefume 
 
 To
 
 A TRAGEDY. 59 
 
 To add a nobler, and a dearer name ? 
 My ever lov'd, my ever honor'd father. 
 If e'er this heart 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 My Clifford, fay no more, 
 I cannot doubt thy truth The gentle candor, 
 The ingenuous foftnefs of thy beauteous mother, 
 Beam in thine eyes. Forgive my wayward fancy, 
 For, Clifford, I am prefs'd by many cares, 
 And need thy friendly counfel. 
 CLIFFORD. 
 Will your ear 
 Endure the honeft voice of ferious truth ? 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 freely fpeak the dictates of thy heart, 
 
 1 now can bear advice can bear even cenfure 
 The days of pride and infolence are gone, 
 
 Fled with rny youth and my profperity 
 My lofty fpirit vails it's towering pride 
 Beneath the iron hand of hard affliction. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 I will not cloath my free opinion, lir, 
 In terms of infolence, nor harfhly urge 
 Memory of errors pait But, might my counfel 
 Be heard with favor, Richard (hould be fought 
 With gentle words and terms of reconcilement. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 What ! bow myfelf to my rebellious fon ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 I do not wim to cloath my thoughts with aught , 
 That founds even like upbraiding Yet, forgive me, 
 When I requeft you but to alk yourfelf 
 If he has not been injur'd. 
 
 H 2 KIXG
 
 6o ADELAIDE. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 ! you probe 
 
 My bofom to the quick I hardly dare 
 Even aik myfelf that queftion. Yet, what's that 
 To his high crimes ? Say I have been to blame- 
 Is that a caufe for treafon and rebellion?- 
 
 1 muft, I will have vengeance. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Ah ! how ean you ? 
 
 The troops that fled with Richard, when united 
 With Philip's numerous boll, and bearing with them 
 The fame in arms of their brave leader, leave you 
 No profpe6l of fuccefs. Remember, iir, 
 You arc not now on England's fea-girt fhore, 
 Fenc'd from all danger by the guardian Ocean, 
 O'er which the reigns fuprcme. Nought but a 
 
 weak, 
 
 And ill-defended frontier, here protects you 
 From the fierce inroad of a faithlcfs people, 
 And an indignant monarch. 
 
 KING HKNRY. 
 
 You're decciv'd 
 
 Long ere iny rebel fon can join with Philip, 
 He'll learn to fear my vengeance. Warlike John, 
 Now leads my Englifh horfe in clofe purfuit: 
 He will overtake the treacherous fugitives, 
 And bring them back in triumph. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Hi.v~ YOU given 
 
 Prince John the power to lead the valiant troop 
 
 Of Englifh knights that I commanded ? 
 
 KING HEMIY. 
 
 Yes- 
 He has iny fignet to enforce obedience. 
 
 CLIFFORD.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 6l 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 ! fir, recall that truli 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 It is too late 
 
 They are already on the march You look 
 
 With Ibrrow and amazement. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Royal fir, 
 
 If I have ftill been faithful if Jus arm 
 Has ever clone you true and loyal lervice, 
 If now you prize your honor and your lately, 
 Let me this inllant follow trim, and try 
 What mild and lenient meafures will effecl:, 
 Ere it be yet too late. My troubled mind 
 Forebodes fome fatal iffue. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Why this quick 
 
 This ftrange alarm ? John is of cooler temper, 
 
 Not ra(h and halty, like his fiery brother. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Afk me not what I fear, or what I know 
 
 1 would not wifh to plant another thorn 
 Within a breaft already too much wounded 
 But truit me once, and let me fly, if poiiiblc, 
 To elofe this dreadful breach. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 What can you do ? 
 
 What terms propofc, that (hall not fhakc at once 
 
 My honor and my power ? 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 By all that's facred 
 
 On earth and heaven, let me conjure you, quit 
 Your ill-plac'd jealoufy Perfuade the Legate 
 To let the holy rites proceed, and give 
 Fair Adelaide to Richard's eager wilhes. 
 
 KING
 
 62 ADELAIDE: 
 
 KING HENHY. 
 
 You are not yet aware of half the dangers 
 That wait thofe nuptials My revolted fon 
 With Philip leagued 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 ! fir, you have a foe 
 
 Nearer than Philip, who with ferpent tooth 
 Preys on the parent breaft that fofters him. 
 Detain me not a moment On my knees 
 Let me entreat your confidence truft me now, 
 And let me fave you, tho' I perifh. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 There is a myftery in all you fay 
 Explain yourfelf more clearly. 
 CLIFFORD. 
 AN, in time 
 
 Will fully be explained the prefent moment 
 Admits not of delay. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Then go, my Clifford 
 
 To your difcretion and fidelity 
 
 1 truft the event. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 And may I profper only 
 As I am true to you. My lord, farewell ; 
 And may I meet you foon with happier profpe&s. 
 
 END OF THE FOURTH ACT. 
 
 ACT
 
 A TRAGEDY. 63 
 
 ACT V. 
 
 Scene the Alley. 
 ADELAIDE, in a religious habit. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 ~\ MY vows are feal'd to heaven eternal oaths, 
 I VI Breath'd with religious zeal, have (hut me 
 
 now 
 
 For ever from the world, and 'tis in vain 
 To throw one look behind me Yet, my Richard, 
 My lingering heart ftill breathes a (igh for thee 
 It muft not be I will fubdue the force 
 Of it's rebellious feelings, and devote 
 My thoughts alone to heaven. 
 
 Enter EMMA. 
 Come, my Emma, 
 
 Thy prefence (hall afiift my weak refolves. 
 The bofom ftill will cling to fome lov'd object, 
 And friendfhip may, without offence, furvive 
 The cloifter's filent tomb. 
 
 EMMA. 
 
 I hope to gild 
 
 Your grief with brighter profpecls You may yet 
 Be free, be happy. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Never I am now 
 
 Securely fhelter'd from the gufts of fortune 
 
 In this Hill harbor. Shall I venture forth 
 
 To try again the various ftorms that wait 
 
 To wreck the votaries of a troubled world ? 
 
 Befides my folemn vows are now recorded 
 
 In the irrevocable doom of heaven ; 
 
 Nor can I, if I would, evade their force 
 
 Or
 
 64 ADELAIDE; 
 
 Or could they be rcvok'd, the injurious wrongs 
 Of Richard's doubts and Henry's lawlefs paffion 
 
 EMMA. 
 You have been much deceiv'd-^-both been de~ 
 
 ceiv'd 
 The wiles of John 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Ah! my prophetic fears 
 
 Were then too juft. My heart ever miflrufted 
 
 His dark referve Proceed my friend. 
 
 EMMA. 
 His arts, 
 
 Beneath the malt of friendly care, inftill'd 
 A mutual jcaloufy between the King 
 And his too hafly fon This, Clifford now 
 Has to my ears imparted He is gone, 
 By Henry's fpecial order 3 to bring back 
 Mifguided Richard. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 That is now too late! 
 Why did my rafh precipitation drive me 
 To breathe the fatal vow which has cut off 
 My hope of joy for ever Yet, why mourn 
 The only Hep that could enfure my peace ? 
 O I were weak indeed again to truft 
 My future happincfs to the wild paffions 
 Ot one, who thus, by caufelcfs doubt alarm'd, 
 Threw me with Icorn, an outcaft from his boibm, 
 Enter KING HENRY. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Start not, my Adelaide, nor think I come 
 A bold intruder here ; for in my heart, 
 My wounded heart, I feel, alas ! too firongly 
 A lenfe of former injuries to thee 
 And my revolted fon. You turn away 
 Your eyes indignant. 
 
 ADELAIDE.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 65 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Sir, the ftormy paffions 
 Of fcorn, and of refentment, ill become 
 A mind devoted to the meek profeflion 
 Of peace and relignation. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 That reflection 
 
 Redoubles all my forro\vs. >'Twas the frenzv 
 Of my rafh jealoufy, that drove your innocence 
 To this retreat ; but you may yet be happy, 
 My fon may ftill be your's, and thofe mild eyes 
 Beam peace and fafety on difcordant nations, 
 And heal the wounds this fatal day has given 
 To my diffracted houfe. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 It cannot be. 
 
 Were I, tho' that's impoffible, fct free 
 From thefe my facred vows, your fon, alas ! 
 Could never be my choice.- The injurious treat- 
 ment 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 My Adelaide, you arc too good, too jufl, 
 To let my errors fall on haplels Richard. 
 They rous'd his jealoufy. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 That is paft, 
 
 Irrevocably paft it matters little 
 From whom my mifery arofc my vows 
 Are now beyond recall. 
 
 KING HK.NRY. 
 
 Think not fo, 
 
 They may be canceli'd Rome has ample power, 
 As well as will, to ferve me. \V here's the Legate ? 
 ,1 did expect him here. 
 
 ATTENDANT. 
 
 The Legate now 
 
 Is in the abbey, fir, and waits your pleafure. 
 
 I KING
 
 66 ADELAIDE: 
 
 KING HENRY. , 
 
 bid him quickly enter. Lovely Adelaide 
 Retire awhile. I hope this interview 
 Will feal your peace. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 1 fhall await the event. Tho' of the hope 
 For other peace, than folitude and prayer 
 Can give within thefc walls, I feel no prefage 
 
 \Ji,xeunt ADELAIDE and 
 
 Enter the LEGATE. ' 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 My lord, I come to ronfe your tardy zeal. 
 Where are the troops, the warlike preparations, 
 That Richard is to head again ft the infidels ? 
 All Europe now is warm in expectation, 
 England alone excepted. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Holy father, 
 
 I fear our hopes are blighted in the bud. 
 
 The youthful warrior who {hould lead my troops 
 
 To Philip is revolted, and with him, 
 
 Threatens our fafety. I have now no force 
 
 For cliitant war, happy if I can guard . 
 
 My own dominions from their arms. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Fear not, 
 
 I will protecl them. For if royal Philip 
 
 Prefume to join in Richard's rafh rebellion, 
 
 Or form defigns againft a realm, whofe arms 
 
 Are now devoted to our co?iamon caufe, 
 
 I will denounce the church's vengeance on h;m. 
 
 And, fhould he pertinacipufly perfift, 
 
 Turn the collected force that's now airembled,, 
 
 On him and his adherents. 
 
 KING KENRY. 
 
 Yet, perhaps, 
 
 There
 
 A TRAGEDY. 67 
 
 There is a milder way to calm this tempeft, 
 &nd give the nation peace. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Name it, my lord. 
 
 O Heaven forefend, we e'er fhould have recourfe 
 
 To violence, when gentler means are ofter'd, 
 
 Or fpeak in terror, when the feraph voice 
 
 Of mercy may be heard. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Then thus, my lord. 
 Abfolve the royal virgin from her vows, 
 Brcath'd in raft hafte, and for a time difpcnte 
 With Richard's fervicc. 'till his promised nuptial? 
 With Adelaide are over. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Think not of it 
 It cannot be. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Yet hear me. Suffer not 
 Intemperate zeal, with over weening hafte 
 To hurt the facred caufe it would fupport. 
 You now can have but a divided force. 
 Confent but to thefe nuptials, and defer 
 For a fhort fpacc the war that time claps'd, 
 England and France united, 'neath the banner? 
 Of my victorious fon, fhall to it's bafis 
 Shake the proud throne of Saladin. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Your purpofe 
 
 Is ftrangely alter'd fince we laft convers'd. 
 But tho' thefe fickle vvav'rings of the mind, 
 May fuit, perhaps, with temporal concerns, > 
 The will of heaven is permanent, and bends not 
 To the weak changes of capricious man. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 You will not then accede to my propofal ? 
 
 I a LEGATS
 
 tis ADELAIDE : 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 Never it cannot be nay, urge me not. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Curfe on my crooked policy, that firft 
 Invok'd your aid, and made myfelf your flavc. 
 
 Adelaide ! O Richard ! O my children ! 
 My cruel perfeverance has undone you, 
 
 For I have arm'd a ruthlefs power againft you, 
 And try in vain to fhield you from it's fury. 
 But know, infulting prieft ! I will not fufter 
 Myfelf, my injur'd children, and my people, 
 To reap the bitter fruits my hand has fown. 
 
 1 will appeal to England's laws, which oft 
 
 Have check' d the encroachments of your haughty 
 
 pontiff; 
 
 They (hall annihilate thefe impious vows, 
 And join the hands of Adelaide and Richard. 
 
 LEGATE. 
 
 I fmile with fcorn at fuch unmeaning threats. 
 You and your frantic iflanders will dare 
 To break thefe vows ? Attempt it, and that mo- 
 ment 
 
 I publifli Rome's anathema againft.you, 
 And your rebellious people. Farther fhould you 
 With Sacrilegious infolencc prefurne 
 To fojemnize thefe nuptials, and unite 
 Your fon with a reclufe your bleeding realms, 
 While a foul brand lies on their fpurious race 
 For age?, (hall lament the dire effects 
 Of a contefted, and uniix'd fuccefiion. 
 And now, my lord, farewell, to your own counfels, 
 And your obedient fons, I leave the event. [&>/>. 
 
 KIXG HENRY. 
 
 This is, alas ! the fatal confequencc 
 Of my appeal to .Rome. The dreadful weapon 
 Is turn'd againlt myfelf Thus is it ever 
 \V'ith thole who would accomplish ralh dcfigns 
 
 By
 
 A TRAGEDY. 69 
 
 By evil means O never let the mind 
 
 Of manly finnnefs feek to gain it's purpofe 
 
 By means that honor turns from nor a monarch 
 
 Bafely fubmit his own, his people's rights, 
 
 To the decifions of a foreign power. 
 
 Enter CLIFFORD. 
 
 ClifFovd ! Return'd alone ? Have you fucceedcd ? 
 Do you bring peace ? Your brow, alas ! portends 
 Some dreadful tidings fpeak Where are my 
 
 fons ? 
 
 Say, did you come in time to check the fury 
 Of John's attack. ? 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 There was no caufe the princes 
 Met without violence. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Tvvas as I thought 
 
 Did I not augur right ? Did I not fay 
 
 The prudence of rny younger Ion would juftify 
 
 The charge I trufled to him O ! I knew 
 
 He would not rafhly give the rein to vengeance : 
 
 You feem to heed me not ! What means this fi- 
 
 lence ! 
 Where arc rny fons ? Do they approach ? 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 They do. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Quick let me meet them, fly to their embrace ; 
 And in the ftrength of my united houle, 
 Laugh at the haughty menace of the Legate. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 O ! flay my royal lord for if you go, 
 You go to ruin and captivity. 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Your words amaze me ! Solve thcfe contradictions. 
 
 Did
 
 70 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Did you not fay my fons were reconcil'd ? 
 That John , 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Is a perfidious traitor ! 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Rafh young man, 
 
 Do not provoke my rage. . I know his faith, 
 Approv'd, unfhaken ; nor will hear a doubt, 
 That envious hate, or jealoufy may breathe 
 Againft his firm attachment to his father. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Envious of him ? Jealous of his attachment, 
 To you, my lord ? I were, indeed, the word, 
 The moft abandoned traitor, if I could 
 But even in thought, betray the truft you gave, 
 As he has done.- 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Away ! no more of this 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 O ! fir, if.iny dcnru6lion were alone 
 
 The fatal confequcnce of your pel-filling 
 
 Still in this pleating error, I would never 
 
 Offend you with the truth, but calmly yield 
 
 To that worft ill, your undeferv'd difplcafure ; 
 
 Lie under the fufpicioa of employing 
 
 The envious arts of fecret defamation, 
 
 To injure him you love. But, fir, your fafety, 
 
 Your liberty demand that I ihould fpeak 
 
 The atrocious deed. Fly from thefe walls thi : s in- 
 
 Hunt ; 
 
 You have not. here a moment's fafety ! Know 
 The princes, with united powers approach, 
 Firft to depofc, and then imprifon you, 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Ha ! both the princes faid you ? 
 
 CLIFFORD f
 
 A TRAGEDY, 7* 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Yes, fir, both. 
 
 As with arm'd heels I urg'd my fiery courfer 
 
 In the purfuit of John, I met his force 
 
 Returning with the rebel troops of Richard, 
 
 In friendly folds their mingled banners waving, 
 
 But holtile each to you. I then deliver' d 
 
 The terms of general peace and pardon to them ; 
 
 Terms, which imperious Richard only anfwer'd 
 
 By fcorn and indignation, which were blown 
 
 To tenfold violence by the fuggeltions, 
 
 And dark infidious hints. 
 
 KING -HENRY. 
 
 O, my fwoll'n heart ! 
 
 Speak not his hated name, left like the dagger 
 
 Of foul unnatural parricide, it pierce 
 
 My bleeding bofom. Have I thus, beneath 
 
 The femblarice of the pureft filial love, 
 
 Fofter'd ingratitude! -My fondeft hope, 
 
 The only It ay of my declining years, 
 
 Is vanifh'd into air. I feel it here 
 
 With deadly force it rends my breaking heart. 
 
 I fink beneath the blow ! 
 
 [Falls into the arms of his Attendants. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Sir, look up 
 
 Be comforted ; relume your rcfolution ! 
 
 KING HENRY. 
 
 Never ! this fatal ftroke has kill'd my hopes. 
 I have no joy, no confolation, left me. 
 My Clifford, I have wrong'd thy faithful fervice 
 By caufelcfs doubt ! 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Wafte not a thought on me. 
 
 [Trumpet at a diflance. 
 'Heard
 
 73 ADEDAIDE: 
 
 Heard you that warlike found ? Sir, they ap- 
 proach 
 
 ! for your own, and for your people's fake, 
 Confult your fafety. Urge with fpeed your flight 
 The danger prefTes. I will face the ftonn 
 
 With the few faithful troops I can aflernble, 
 While you efcape. Ruin furrounds you here 
 But could you reach the fhores of England 
 
 KING HEXRY. 
 
 No! 
 
 Death is my choice, and I can perifh here. 
 
 1 feel the languor of declining life 
 Overwhelm my fainting frame. My woes, alas ! 
 Will be of fhort duration. Happy ifland !. 
 Seat of my former glory, ne'er again 
 
 Shall thy white cliffs rife to my Ipnging eyes 
 In pleating profpecl never more thefe lungs 
 Inhale the balmy fragrance of thy air. 
 France muft receive my afhes yet, my Clifford, 
 Let not rny deftiny involve thee fly ! 
 Preferve thyfclf, and leave me to my fate. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Now you indeed are cruel your fufpicions 
 Do hurt me now. Leave you ? and can you deem 
 So bafely of me ? No, fir, I will ftay 
 And iacrifice my lateft breath to ferve you. 
 
 KING HEXRY. 
 
 O ! tny denr fon, thy filial virtue comes 
 
 Like the faint radiance of the fetting ray 
 
 That gilds the evening florin, to cheer the clofe 
 
 Of my tempeftuous days. They foothe my an- 
 
 guiffi, 
 
 And almoit teach me not to hate mankind 
 My only thought towards life is, how to recom,- 
 
 penfe 
 Such exemplary goodncfc ; but I feel 
 
 It
 
 A TRAGEDY. 73 
 
 It cannot be I die ! and leave my power 
 j To thofe who have deftroy'd me rin vvhofe eyes 
 ! Fidelity to me will be a crime. 
 
 Oh ! I am lick to death j lead lead me in. 
 
 [Exit, led by CLIFFORD. 
 
 Scene before the Abbey. 
 
 Enter PRINCE RICHARD, and PRINCE JOHN, with 
 Englijh and Norman Soldiers. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 My brave companins, profperous fortune fmiles 
 Upon our waving enligns ; all who meet us, 
 Meet us as friends, and fwell our growing ranks 
 With their encreafing numbers ! But thefe walls, 
 Thefe fatal walls, ftrike terror thro' my foul ! 
 My bread is chill'd with fear perhaps my Ade- 
 laide 
 
 Is now devoted to my father's arms ! 
 Summon the inmates of this dreary manfion ! 
 
 ABBESS, at the grate. 
 
 What voice profane, fo loudly dares difturb 
 The peaceful fabbath of this holy dome ? 
 
 PRINCB RICHARD. 
 
 Richard of England ; who comes here the cham- 
 
 pio 
 
 Of innocence, and beauty. When the walls 
 Devoted to religion yield a refuge 
 To perfecuted virtue, they are facred 
 From worldly interruption ; every fpear 
 Should bow it's fteely point in holy reverence 
 But when they once become the guilty feat 
 Of violence and outrage, every claim 
 Of fanclity is loft ; each gloomy cloifter 
 Is by the hand fevere of equal juftice, 
 Mark'd fordeftruclion. Therefore, oo theinftant 
 K Bring
 
 fr4 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Bring forth my Adelaide, or by my honor, 
 A foldier'sinjur'd honor, I will raze 
 This fabric to the earth. 
 
 Enter ADELAIDE from tit e Abbey. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Forber, rafh man, 
 
 Your guilty violence nor after breaking 
 
 The facred laws of duty, and of honor, 
 
 Revolting from your king, your fire, your country, 
 
 Wage impious war with heaven. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 My Adelaide, 
 
 Are your vows pafs'd ? Then I am truly wretched. 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 'Tis fo indeed, my lord. But yet remember 
 Whofe groundlefs jealoufy, whofe words injurious, 
 Whofe harfti reproofs, declaiming even the fhadovv 
 Of tendernefs and love, have driven me hither. 
 I had no other proof, alas ! to give, 
 That my rejected heart was true to you, 
 Tho' it refus'd to (hare your crimes That virtue, 
 And not a pageant fceptre, was the idol 
 That I preferr'd even to your love. 
 
 PRINCE R1C&ARD. 
 
 O cruel 
 
 And fatal proof, that has for ever doom'd me 
 
 To mifery and woe ! To fee you torn 
 
 For ever from me thus to find you innocent, 
 
 Yet know you never can be mine. Diftraclion I 
 
 .ADELAIDE. [Going. 
 
 Farewell.. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Ah ! do not leave me, Adelaide 
 
 Give me one tender word, one parting look. 
 
 ADELAIDE.
 
 A TRAGEDY. 7$ 
 
 ADELAIDE. 
 
 Yes I will fpeak once more nay, will confefs, 
 
 That fpite of all the holy vows I brcath'd, 
 
 Nor time, nor prayer, nor penitence, I fear, 
 
 Will ever blot you from my wounded bolbm, 
 
 Till in the dark oblivion of the grave 
 
 Your image and my life are funk together. 
 
 I feel I've faid too much My lord, farewell! 
 
 Where e'er you go, may profperous fortune wait you,, 
 
 And angels fhield you in the hourpf dagger 
 
 With love as zealous, and as pure as mine : 
 
 And when fome fairer and fome happier virgin 
 
 (You cannot meet a truer) (hall receive 
 
 With more aufpicious flars your nuptial vows, 
 
 If e'er the fervid temper of your mind 
 
 Lead you to doubt her faith, O let one thought 
 
 Of your unhappy Adelaide come o'er 
 
 Your ruffled foul, and tell you, innocence 
 
 May be unjufty flandered. -Take my lad, 
 
 My laft adieu for we muft meet no more. [Exif. 
 
 PRIXCE RICHARD. 
 
 Stay, ftay, my only hope ! Leave me not thus 
 A prey to deep remorfe and woe She is gone 
 For ever gone and am I left alone, 
 Amid a world that gives no joy without her. 
 Curfe on my blind credulity, that mov'd me 
 To wound her tried fidelity. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 Why blame 
 
 With fuch afperity the glaring proofs 
 On which your fcorn was founded ? Be not ever 
 Dup'd by the falle pretence of female artifice. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Enough of this I have, alas ! too much 
 Liftened to your fuggeftions. That dark mind, 
 K2 Is
 
 76 ADELAIDE: 
 
 Is much too prone, I fear, to judge of others 
 
 By what it reads within Your dangerous counfels 
 
 Have ruiri'd me. The only confolation 
 
 That now remains is vengeance Yes, thofe walls 
 
 Shall feel my fury and, unnatural father, 
 
 [Pointing to the town. 
 You (hall partake my ruin Calls of duty, 
 And impulfe of affection, I difclaim you 
 Ye fhall not check my rage- Aflift me foldiers. 
 
 Enter CLIFFORD from the Abbey. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Stay thy ungovern'd violence, rafh man, 
 Nor further tempt thy fate. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 Clifford !Away ! 
 
 Stop not the torrent of my juft revenge, 
 
 Left it o'erwhelm thee. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 And is Clifford then 
 
 So little known to Richard, that he thinks 
 His threatenings will appal him ? Are the towers 
 of Mans forgot, where this true breaft, undaunted, 
 Oppos'd itfelf a bulwark to your numbers, 
 In our dear father's caufe, while your fell fword 
 Hunted his facred life. Alas ! this hour 
 Demands not manly courage 'tis not now 
 That fpears and fwords muft triumph Here's a fight 
 To freeze your impious ardor, rivet down 
 With gorgon look your ftiffen'd limbs to earth. 
 
 [King Henry s body brought in. 
 Unnatural offspring of a murder'd king, 
 Slain by your harfh unkindnefs ! Parricides ! 
 Look on that corfe, and if the feeds of nature 
 Yet live within your breafts weep tears of blood. 
 
 PRINCE
 
 A TRAGEDY. 77 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD. 
 
 [Dropping 
 O fight of woe My father ! O my father ! 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Ah, lamentable day ! 
 
 CWFPOKD. 
 
 And doft thou weep, 
 
 Perfidious hypocrite, whofe cruel treachery 
 Firft broke his noble heart That was the fhaft 
 That brought him to the dull. With manly firmncft 
 He bore his fon's revolt, his faithlefs troops ; 
 Yes, blufh ye fhame to Englifh loyalty ; 
 
 [To the EngTi/h foldiers, 
 
 The Legate's infolence, who refus'd to break 
 The vows of Adelaide ; for know, and mourn 
 Thy hafte~ mifguided prince, he was employing 
 Each means to heal thy fufterings, while the breath 
 Of that malignant traitor, which firfl rais'd 
 Your mutual jealoufy, was then corrupting 
 Thy faith by new fufpicions. 
 
 PRINCE JOHN. 
 
 Tis as falfe 
 
 As hall and thee. 
 
 CLIFFORD. 
 
 Did not yon awful ruin 
 Of murder' d majefty, o'ercharge with forrow 
 My better fpirits, this vindictive arm 
 Should force thy recreant accents to confefs 
 The truth of what I fay that now is pad 
 This hand (hall never grafp a fword again. 
 For when I have perfonn'd the folemn rites 
 To martyr'd Henry's fhade, I vow to give 
 The remnant of my life to holy duties. 
 Whene'er you call upon me, I will prove 
 To you, and all mankind, this dreadful charge, 
 Not by the doubtful arm of violence, 
 But by trvre facls, and clear unbiafs'd witnefs. 
 
 FBXMCB
 
 73 ADELAIDE. 
 
 PRINCE RICHARD; 
 
 If he does prove this charge- and much I fear 
 It will be fo - 1 fhall for ever hold thee 
 An alien to my blood ttnfit to taint 
 The light of day, and focial haunts of man 
 Till th#n we hold thee pri loner Injur'd corfe, 
 I tremble to approach thee, left thy blood 
 Barfting it's fwelling channels, rufh upon me, 
 And mark me as thy murderer. Clifford, fee 
 The obfequies with reverend care perform'd ; 
 For I will fly tbefe climes, and you, my friends, 
 Companions of my guilt but by that guilt, 
 Alas ! feduc'd together let us go, 
 And, on the ftern opprefTors of our faith, 
 Expiate our crimes. And thou, much injured faint, 
 In thefe lone walls fccluded, in thy orifbns, 
 When thou pour'ft forth thy fervent foul in pray'r, 
 O breathe one figh for a repentant wretch, 
 V horn the wild frenzy of ungovern'd pailion 
 U**> torn from thee, a'nd happinefs, for ever.
 
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 Grinfield, L ; eut.-gentrdl 
 
 Evans, Rev. Mr. 
 
 W. K.B. 
 
 Goodail, Rev. Dr. 
 
 Evans, Captain Charles 
 
 Freeling, Francis, efq. 
 
 Goold, C. D. efq. 
 
 Eliot, Hon. John 
 
 Fawkes, Colonel 
 
 Gardner, Mr. John 
 
 Earle and Hemet, Mefl". 2 cop. 
 
 French, Savage, efq. 
 
 Gabell, Rev. Henry 
 
 Evans, C. efq. 
 
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 Gretton, Rev Dr. 
 
 Evr.ns, John, efq. 
 
 Favenc, Peter, efq. 
 
 Greflry, Richard, efq. 
 
 Erikine, Colonel, K.L.D. 
 
 Forfter, Rev. Edward 
 
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 Edmiftcn,Rev.Wiiham 
 
 Findlay, Captain 
 
 Grant, Peter, efq. Paymafter, 
 
 Evans, Mr. John 
 
 Fonnereau, Henry, efq. 
 
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 Elpiiin, Lord Bi/hop of 
 
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 Euftace, Lieut. -general 
 
 
 [Tort, Sir John, Em. 
 
 Elton, Capt. SotubGioc.Mili. 
 
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 rlewitt, Major- gtaieral 
 
 TJ.^.-i^r T~U 7u 
 
 I;den, Sir Frederick, Ba 
 
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 Evans', Rev. Jauies 
 
 I Rcoms, Edinburgh 
 I'.ytoii, Rev. John Wynne 
 i,-ig>-',Thonms W^^bb, eiq. 
 Edglon, John, efq. 
 fimton, William, t-fq. 
 Euis, ?vlajor general 
 EJw^ds, Ludy Jatie 
 - igid*- major 
 
 j Gordon, Rev. Sir Adam, Bt. Heriot, John, elq 
 
 Gordon, Sii -Francis, Bart. 
 i Gordon, William, efq. 
 j Gordon, Robert Hornc, efq. 
 
 Gordon, John, tlq. 
 
 G ^rdon, General Andrew 
 
 Gordon, Rev. George 
 
 Gordon, Major Willoughby 
 'Gay, Nicholas, tfq. F.R.S. 
 
 Gage, Colonel Lord Vilcount 
 
 Gun, GeL-rge, eiq. 
 'Gebhardt, A.G. efq. 
 i Grevillf, tjjc Kc. Jlya. Charles 
 
 Henchman, Thomas, efq. 
 Harrington, Lt. -gen. theKarl of 
 Hulton, Lieut. -colonel 
 Heather, Mr. 
 Hope, the Hon. Ccl. John 
 Hughes, William Lewis, efq. 
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 Hammond, Colonel 
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 Horneck, Major-general 
 Harman, Samuel, efq. 
 Heinery, James, efq.
 
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 Haftings, Major-general 
 Hill, Sir Geo. Fitzgerald, Bt. 
 
 Hutchinfon, William, efq. 
 Holmes, Mr. H. 
 
 Jefferfon, Rev. Jofcph 
 Ireland, Hi* Majelty's Poft- 
 
 Hope, Henry, efq. 
 
 Hallward, Thomas, efq. 
 
 maftcr Gen.of 
 
 Harrifon, Edward, M. D. 
 
 Hervey, Honourable Gener.il 
 
 Irhy, Hon. W. H. 
 
 Hawkins, John, elq. 
 
 Hibbeit, George, efq. 
 
 Jameibn, Mr. 
 
 Hughs, Henry, efq. 
 
 Hammtrfleys and Cu. Meflrs. 
 
 
 Helelune, Edward, efq. 
 
 Horft, Mr.' John 
 
 
 Hughes, Lt. Philip, Rl. Eng 
 
 H dgetts, J. efq. 
 
 Kenyon, Samuel, efq. 
 
 Hillop, Alexander, efq. 
 
 H irdwicke, Earl of 
 
 Keighley, Mr. 
 
 Harcourr, Lt.-col. G.iath Fl 
 
 Horrex, Mr. Edmund 
 
 Keane, Michael, efq. a copies 
 
 Hertford, the Maiquefs of 
 
 Henderfon, Peter, efq. 
 
 Kite, Charles, efq. 
 
 Hutchinlbn, Major-genet al 
 H.irdwicke. Francis, efq. 
 
 Hinfard, Mr. Luke, i copies 
 Herne, E. B. efq. 
 
 Knight, John, efq. 
 Kenne.iy, Robert Hugh, efq. 
 
 Hughes, C.ipt. Charles, R. N. 
 
 Hill, Mr Peter, 
 
 King's College, Cambridge 
 
 Hall, Lieutenant colonel 
 
 Harford, R. S. efq. 
 
 Kiine, Major John 
 
 Hookham, Mr. H. 
 
 Herne, Rev. John Buck worth 
 
 Kefteven, Thomas, efq. 
 
 Hartman, Ifaac, efq. 
 
 Hughes, Major Royal Angl. 
 
 Keppel, Frederic, tffq. 
 
 Hthl, M,-. Simon 
 
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 Kirkwall, Lord. Vifcount 
 
 Howard, Simeon, e/q. 
 
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 Holly, Mr. Thomas, 4. copies 
 
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 Hurt, Charles, efq. 
 
 Henckell, George, efq. 
 
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 Ker, Lady Eflex 
 
 Hall, Riv. W. 
 
 Horn, Mr. William 
 
 Kirkman, Captain Nathaniel 
 
 Hanman, Rev. Sir James, Bt. 
 
 Hailftone, Rev. ProrVflbr 
 
 Keith, Vice-adm. LordK.B. 
 
 Hermand, Lord 
 
 Halihurton, David, Efq. 
 
 Knight and i riphook, Me if. 
 
 Hui 11, Mr. Thomas, iocopieb 
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 Hookham, Mr. J. two copies 
 
 Iliuiion, R. efq. 
 Hope, Lt.-col. John, 37th reg. 
 Halm, Henry, efq. 
 
 three copies 
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 Heneage, George, efq. 
 Hanfmck, Mr. 
 
 Howie, Captain 79th Reg. 
 Harris, George, M. D. 
 
 Kynafton, 'Roger efq. 
 Kane, Mr. 
 
 Herries, Farquhar, and Co f 
 
 Hyde, John, eiq. 
 
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 Meflnt, 
 
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 Kavanagh, Thomas, efq. 
 
 Harwant, George, efq. 
 Hole, Rev. H. A. 
 
 Hecker, John Henty, efq. 
 
 
 Halliaay, Thomas, efq. 
 
 
 Lewis, M-utliew, efq. 
 
 Hume, James, efq. for the 
 
 J.ickfon, Mr. 
 
 Lefevre, Charles Shaw, efq. 
 
 Commif. of Cuftoms. 
 
 Inchiquin, Earl of 
 
 Lichigaray, S.imutl, eiq. 
 
 Holt, Robert, efq. 
 
 Jctiev, Countefs of 
 
 Lilter, General 
 
 Hill, Mr. Waldron 
 
 Jackfon, F. J. efq. 
 
 Luveden, E. L. efq. 
 
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 J;ircline, Henry, eiq. 
 
 Lowry, Rev. J. 
 
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 Innes, Rev. Mr. 
 
 L oyd, Gamaliel, efq. 
 
 Hoojier, Thomns, efq. 
 
 J ickfon, Henry, efq. 
 
 Lambert, Sir I-Lntv, Bart. 
 
 Hole, Lieut. H. Maunes 
 
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 Lavie, Capt. Thomas, R. N. 
 
 Harriibn, Mr. 
 
 Commif. for the Affa rs of 
 
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 Ireland, Rev. T.R. 
 
 LrttU Library 
 
 'Handen Nathaniel, elq. 
 
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 Hale, John, elq. 
 
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 Jerningham, Sir Wil. Bart. 
 
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 Innes, Rev. G. 
 
 Lumley, Hon. Fredtrick 
 
 Holmes, Peter, jun. efq 1 . 
 
 Innes, Mr. 
 
 Lumington, Wi.li m, efq. 
 
 Hill, Rev. Mr. 
 Hume, Tho. M. B. T. C. D. 
 
 Jenkins, Rev. R. J. R. 
 Irving, John, efq. 
 
 Lewis, George, efq. 
 Lloyd, Rev. J. 
 
 Hill, Dr. Edward 
 
 Johnion, George, efq. 
 
 Liw, James, efq. 
 
 Hoare, Henry Merrik, efq. 
 
 Johofon, Robert, efq. 
 
 Lavington, Lord, K, B. 
 
 Henneker, Brigadier-general 
 
 Int'tam, Francis, efq. 
 
 Lloyd, Mr. four copies. 
 
 Hoare, Henry Hugh, elq. 
 Hanwell and Parker, Melfrs. 
 
 (nglis, Major, 57th Regiment 
 Jones, Valentine, elq. 
 
 Lake* Capt. R. N. 
 Laurie and Whittle, Meflr*. 
 
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 Legh, George John, efq. 
 
 Mofs, Rev.Dr. 
 
 Planners, Mifs 
 
 Lee, Lieu'-col. Sir. VV. bart. 
 
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 lackenzir, Vice-admiral 
 
 Lennon, W. C. efq. 
 
 Mordaunt, General 
 
 
 Lnckhart, John Ingram, efq. 
 
 More, Robert, eiq. 
 
 
 Lewis, Major 
 
 Michell, Lieut. -Colonel G. 
 
 MafTni, Frederic, efq. 
 
 Llovd, Rev. J. R. 
 
 Malcolm, Colonel 
 
 iJewhery, Francis, eiq. 
 
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 Lomax, Chat Us, efo. 
 
 Myei-s, Marof-eeheral 
 
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 \tpean, Evan, eiq. 
 
 Lovaine, Lord | Mulcalter, Mr. James 
 
 ^Jicholns, M ijor 
 
 Ltpard, Mr. Benjamin 
 
 Mackelc^n, Lieut. -col. Royai 
 
 Newton, Samuel, efq. 
 
 Lcfli, J.. mes, e'q. 
 
 Engineers. 
 
 O'Gorman, Major 
 
 Leo, 'Thomas, eiq. 
 
 Ma (ley, General 
 
 
 Laurence, Dr. 
 
 Meggy and Chalk, MeflYs. 
 
 
 Liimore, Lord 
 
 Michell, Charles, efq. 
 
 Ordnance, Board of, in Ireland 
 
 Lrckie, Gould,, efq. 
 
 Martin, Thomas, efq. 
 
 Oliver, Robert, efq. 
 
 Lambert, Ciiai ics, eij. 
 
 Marfh, Lieutenant-general 
 
 Oiborne, John, efq. 
 
 Library Socieiy, \Vorcefler 
 
 Maxwel', William, efq. 
 
 O'Biyen, Captain, R. N. 
 
 Lind, F. eiq. 
 
 M'Ca!', Samuel, efq. 
 
 O'Brytn, Euwar ', efq. 
 
 Lakej Sir James, Bart. 
 
 Macmahon, Capt. f3d Reg. 
 
 Ogie, Lieut. -colonel 
 
 L>- :-v, Dowager Lady 
 
 Moira, Lieut-gen, the Earl of 
 
 Drkr.ey, Connttfs of 
 
 Lees, VViil-aiVjVq. 
 
 Mincch, Mr. Juihnian 
 
 O sver, Ricinp.i, cii;. 
 
 Lownds, W. efq. 
 
 Mackenzie, Lii.ut.-col. Muir 
 
 O \va!-.:, George, eiq. 
 
 Long, Edward, efq. 
 
 Matthews, Jofeph, efq. 
 
 Ofborne, Thomas, eiq. 
 
 LutviHdge, Char'cs, efq. 
 
 Mitford, Sir John 
 
 Ogie, Edward, eiq. 
 
 Lankan, Peier, jun. clq. 
 
 Matthias, "George, efq. 
 
 Grander, W.l!ia:r., c.q. 
 
 
 Mnflenden, Darnel, efq. 
 
 O Byrne, Lt. M. 6fth Reg. 
 
 
 Merry, William, eiq. 
 
 Oliver, Peter, efq. 
 
 Manners, General 
 
 Matfhall, Ralph, efq. . 
 
 O'Rcillty, Sir Hugh, Bart. 
 
 \Ionts;omrrv, M.IJT 
 
 MonzelJ, W. T. efq. 
 
 O'Ri/a, Gnwral 
 
 Michel, C.'W.e'q. 
 
 Mofs, Robert, e o. 
 
 
 Maitland, Hon. General 
 
 Maude, Mr. W. M. 
 
 
 Maitiand, H >n. Col. izth Ft. 
 
 Montolieii, Lewis, efq. 
 
 Peel, Robert, efq. 
 
 Maitland, Liet.-Col. Freder c 
 
 M'Crea, Capt. Invalids 
 
 Palk, t>:'r L(*it,ice, Bart. 
 
 Maitlanc', Col. ill Ft. Giurd:, 
 
 Munchauicn, Mr. de 
 
 Parker, George, eiq. 
 
 Macphenor, James, efq. 
 
 Murray and Highley, Meffi s 
 
 Pnngle, Colonel 
 
 Jvlinto, Loid 
 
 fix copies 
 
 Pert. and, His G.acethe D. of 
 
 Mulgrav?, Lord 
 
 Middleton, J. C. efq. 
 
 Phipps, Hon. Col. % copies 
 
 IVIorrit, J. B. S. efq. 
 
 Mnfgrave, General 
 
 Phipps, Hon. AugulUis 
 
 Marfhal), Robert, efq, 
 
 M'Mah-m, Mr. John 
 
 Peacht-y, Hni). John 
 
 McCarthy, Captain C. 
 
 M e, jo cy\\, efq. 
 
 Park.-i, A -nural S r Hyde 
 
 Murray, Lieut. C >\. Peter 
 
 M ore, Kev. J.'.nn 
 
 Portland's, Dnkoof, Ofiice 
 
 MilHr.gton, Lang'rord, efq. 
 
 Maddifon, John efq. 
 
 Pococke, Sic I. ate, B.n. 
 
 Mund; , Edward' Miller, tfq. 
 
 K.irloi' 
 
 Power, K ;Ct) ai 'H, e!q. 
 
 Murr: y, {'at. ( f Simpnin, tiq. 
 
 'loorc, Frank, e r q. 
 
 Po .-' , 1 tio. Harcourt, efq. 
 
 M .H hiwougi 1 , His Grace tiu 
 
 Moore, G, P. 
 
 Perkins, M;ij'ir-generai J. F. 
 
 Duke of 
 
 M'Kinnon, Lieut.-col.ColdS 
 
 Portal, Harry, eiij. 
 
 IVl'Miil Jjl, .Vv. 
 
 Guards 
 
 P'lipps, J.ieut.-coi. Ifaac 
 
 M;-fden, Alcx.intler, rf/j. 
 
 Montgo;iieiy, Rev. John 
 
 Pei km, Harry, eiq. 
 
 Ivlo.i^.R-^i,; Hon. Ledge 
 
 M )0i<-, John, efq. 
 
 Pooie, Thomas, eiq. 
 
 Morgan, Julif;, r q. 
 
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 Powell, Maj. T.Hth Reg. F. 
 
 Ridout, Mr. J. G. 
 
 Stamford, Earl of 
 
 Pkfton, Robert, efq. 
 
 Rigby, Will, am, efq. 
 
 Simpfon, Henry, efq. 
 
 Philips, Charles, el'q. 
 
 Roope, Lt. Cam. Gien^'lieib. 
 
 Searle's Coffee-houie 
 
 Powell, Col. John Kynaftou 
 
 Revenue, Ccininiflis. of His 
 
 Shafteft)ury, Earl of 
 
 Peacock, Maj. 48111 Reg. 
 
 M::ji'ity\s, in Ireland. 
 
 Sunderlin, Lord 
 
 Pickftonr, Joieph, eiq. 
 
 Reynolds, Lieut. -coioiicl 
 
 Sra.ley, John Thomas, efq. 
 
 Perry, James, efq. 
 
 Ryan, Major 
 
 Sptncer, Colonel 
 
 Peyton, Capt. John, R. N . 
 
 Reed, Colonel ift N^rthumb. 
 
 Shirreff, Lieutenant-general 
 
 Powlctt, Powlctt, eiq. 
 
 Mil. 
 
 Sturgeon, Thomas Wil. efq. 
 
 Peterftam, Lord Viicoimt 
 
 Rule, Jo!e;>h, e^. rtr, Eul, K. G. 
 
 Panting, Rev. Laurence 
 
 Riuye, Thoiiias, t.q. 
 
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 Powney, Otorge, efq. 
 
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 \Viili3in, efq. 
 
 Peacocke, Lt.-col. Cit. Gds. 
 
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 . d, Charles, eiq. 
 
 Patiifon, J.imes, tfq. 
 
 two c. . 
 
 , W.ilier, el'q. 
 
 Parry, James, ciq. 
 
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 Parlour, Mr. John 
 Pim, J in , riq. 
 
 K< . - ' / rge, t . j. 
 Roi's, C::pr. CoWft. Guards 
 
 S:mcot, .'viajor general 
 Sheldon, William, efq. 
 
 Porter, Lt. Win. y6th Reg. 
 
 Rofs, Capt. JR. Ji. 
 
 imith, Capt. William, R. N. 
 
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 Prelcott, Sir George, B..rt. 
 
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 Riveiilcroft, Lieut. -col. John 
 
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 Pultency, Lt.-gtii. Sir Jume. 
 
 Ribblefdale, Loid 
 
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 Rtynoldf, Lieut. -colonel 
 
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 Paiflee, Mr. T! omas 
 
 Rot>i: Ion, Cpt. W. a4thReg. 
 
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 Pai flee, Mr. John 
 
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 Suaid, William, efq. 
 
 Price, J.efq. 
 
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 Rowley, Hon. C. 
 
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 Pair, Dr. 
 
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 RoMnLn, V/i;i.'.:m, efq. 
 
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 Richaidfon, Major-gen. Wil. 
 
 Sibthorp, Colonel 
 
 Robinfons, Mdf. G.G. and J. 
 
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 Stoclduit, Rev. C. 
 
 Richmond, Field Mai fiial, His 
 
 Ranee, J. P. eiq. 
 
 Shcrwill, M. E. efq. 
 
 Grace the Duke of, K. G. 
 
 
 Smithfon, William, efq. 
 
 Remney, Lord 
 
 
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 RokTts, J. W. efq. 
 
 Strutt, Major-general 
 
 Saunders, Maj. Rbi.Dundas 
 
 Rirkttts, W. H. eiq. R. N. 
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 Sandys, Biigadier-ma;or 
 
 Turner, Mr. 
 
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 Thwaitej.' J. W. G. efq. 
 
 Wolferft.irs, Sam. Pope, efq. 
 
 Sk-eman, Rev. Peter 
 
 Thomfun, Maj. Royal Artil. 
 
 Whealely, Lt.-col. Hi Gd s . 
 
 Smith, Cap' am William 
 
 Thomibn, Mr. 
 
 Wray, Sir Br>urcbier, Bart. 
 
 Smith, Captain Charles 
 
 Tempeft, Sir H. B 'it. 
 
 Wickham, Mr. 
 
 St. Ciair, Msjor 
 
 Twenivman, Colonel 
 
 Wbyte, Captain 
 
 Salmon, W. W. efq. 
 
 Taylor, lion, and Rev. Edw. 
 
 Wynn, Henry Watkin Wil- 
 
 Spencer, Lt.-col. z^\ Liglv 
 
 Tyrone, Lord 
 
 liam?, efq. 
 
 Drag. 
 
 Ti ench, Hon. Richard 
 
 Williams, Thomas, efq. 
 
 Sturt, Charles, efq. 
 
 T rebeck, James, efq. 
 
 White, W. H. efq. 
 
 Slk, Mr. 
 
 Tweedie*, Chs8. jun. eft}. 
 
 Wood, William, efq. 
 
 Stewart, the Hon. and Rev. 
 
 Thomplon, G-o. N-.lbitt, efq. 
 
 Wortley, Colonel 
 
 Charles 
 
 Tate, Mr. John, efq. 
 
 Walpole, Lord 
 
 Sinclair, Sir John, But. 
 Shadwel!, Lar,a-br, tiq. 
 
 Tynte, Colonel j. K. 
 Trevor, Right Hon. John 
 
 Wilbraham, Randle, efq. 
 Whitelocke, Major-general 
 
 Sherlock, Lt.-col. 5'h Drag. 
 
 Talbot, Hon. JohnChetwynd 
 
 Wright, Mr. John 
 
 Guards 
 
 Travis, Mr. William 
 
 Walter, Will. am, efq. 
 
 Stuait, Col. John, Minorca 
 
 Thewles, Lt.-col. 4 f h Drag. 
 
 Wiadham, J,;feph, efq. 
 
 Reg. 
 
 Gviards 
 
 Wingfield, Major 4-oth Ree. 
 
 Scott, Jofeph, efq. 
 
 Taylor, Hon. Colonel 
 
 Wood, Lt. '-col. 21 it Lt. DT. 
 
 Simmons & Kirnhy's Libvaiy 
 
 Taylor, Thomas, tfq. 
 
 Warwick, Earl of 
 
 Sinclair, lames, efq. 
 
 Trevenen, Rt-v. "T. 
 
 Wayland, J. jun. efq. 
 
 Stavtley, M. joi-gcmral 
 
 ThoHiton, Robert, efq. 
 
 Wilfon, R. T. i 5 th Reg. 
 
 Sommers, Lady 
 
 Trot'.er, Captain 
 
 K. L. D. 
 
 Socket!, H. elq. 
 
 Trowtr, James, tfq. 
 
 Wilbraham, Roger, efq. 
 
 Swavnt, Ci'.j (.tin 
 
 Trigge, .Genera!, Cummander 
 
 Warren, efq. 
 
 fcmith, M". Chas. two cop : es 
 
 in ch^et at Martinique. 
 
 Whitcfoord, John R. efq. 
 
 St. Johr.'r. ('. iicge, Camoi cgc 
 S < ;rl-mm.-, Captain 
 
 Tennant, W. efq. 
 f'revenin, Mr. Duris: r!e 
 
 Ward, John, efq. 
 Wulfe, Lieut .-col. yoth Reg. 
 
 
 Tregoning, Mr. J<.>ieph 
 
 Whitelocke, Lieurenant-col. 
 
 
 Fownley, John, elq. 
 
 Wall, Will am, eiq. 
 
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 Tornilnion, Mr. 
 
 Wingfield, Hon. Capt. CoMft. 
 
 Tho nalin-, Mr. 
 
 Tem r le, Earl, two copies 
 
 Guards 
 
 T.v. !>:, Capi.iin 
 
 Fempictown, Lo.-il 
 
 Winftanley, Majcr 
 
 "Si anfpoir. Office 
 
 Treve'.yan, Sir J. Bart. 
 
 VVnrner, Jofeph, elq. 
 
 Tradeand I- on >en Plantations 
 
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 VVilibn, Major Gv.ora;e 
 
 . tr,<- Lcr.is C mniittec for 
 
 
 Wilibn, John, efq. 
 
 'Tniy, H.tiq. 
 
 
 Wildcy, Capt. John 
 
 Taihot, Sir Charles, Bart. 
 
 Uxbti !ge, Earl of, two copies 
 
 Wiilbn, Capt. Richard 
 
 Twifs, Lt.-col. Royal Engi- 
 
 Unm, J, W. efq. 
 
 Wheeler, Trevor, eiq. 
 
 neers 
 
 UJney, Robert, elq. 
 
 Wilberforce, W.lliam, efq. 
 
 Tavlor, Mr. 
 
 Urqu.iait, Majur- general 
 
 Willis, Capt. Richard, R. N. 
 
 TowB&end, Field Ma^fhal 
 
 
 Wallss, Mr. John, to copies 
 
 Marquis 
 
 
 Wallis, Mr. James, iz copies 
 
 Trotter, John, efq. two copies 
 
 Vanfittart, Nicholas, efq. three 
 
 Watts, William, elq. 
 
 Trotter. Alexander, efq. 
 
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 Trotter, Coutis, efq. 
 
 Vaughan, Mrs. 
 
 Wroughton, Major George 
 
 TIT pp%?> Jvlr. \Vil. two copies 
 
 Victualling Board, Commjf. 
 
 Wefton, Webb, efq. 
 
 ' ToQU> Miv John,- thjee coi.ies of the 
 
 .Wylde, Rev. Mr.
 
 Wood, Mr. 
 Warre, Jame?, efq. 
 Wynn, Sir Watkin Wil- 
 
 liams, Bart. 
 
 Wynn, Chas. Williams, efq. 
 Wefton, Stephen, B. D. 
 Williugton, Lt.-col. Royal 
 
 Artillery 
 
 Watibn, George, efq. 
 Wilfon, Lieutenant-colonel 
 Weathu-by, Ed*aid, efq. 
 Wiifon, Richard, efq. 
 Wilfon, G. tfq. 
 Willoughhy, Hon. Mr. 
 Wynttr, Rev. Robert 
 Wodehoufe, Lord, two copies 
 Whitwortli, his Excellency Sir 
 
 Chiries, K. B. two topics 
 Wilford, Major- general 
 
 Wilfon, Leftoch, efq. 
 
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 TO CHAUCHARD's MAPS. 
 
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 Warde, Sr. Andrew, elq. 
 Wilkinfon, J. L. efq. 
 Wemyfs, Major-general 
 Watfon, William, til;. 
 Waring, John Scott, elq. 
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 Wi eight, Htniy, dq. 
 Whitbread, Snoiuel, efq. 
 Wan-en, Sii George, K. B. 
 White, Lieut. -col. jft Gds. 
 Wcrth, Cuur, and Worth, 
 
 Meffrs. 
 
 Willis, Dr. Framis 
 Wright, Mr. Wiiii-m 
 Wright, Charles, efq. 
 Walker, Captain 3d Guards 
 Wilkinfon, Joltnfon, efq. 
 Whitmoie, Rev. George 
 Wall, Lt.-col. Suulh Gloftoi 
 
 Militia 
 
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 Yonge, Capk. iSth Lf. Drag. 
 Youn and I mi ay, Meli'rs. 
 Yeldham, J'>hn, efq. 
 Yo:k, His Giace the abp. of 
 
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