Dor.
YOur royall buildings bow your loftie side,
And scope to her that is by right your Queen:
Let your humilitie vpbraid the pride
Of those in whom no due respect is seene:
Nine times haue we with Trumpets haughtie sound,
And banishing sow'r Lea[…]en from our taste:
Obseru'd the feast that takes the fruit from ground.
Since I faire Citie did behold last,
So long it is since Mariams purer cheeke
Did rob from mine the glory. And so long
Since I returnd my natiue Towne to seeke:
And with me nothing but the sense of wrong.
And my Boy, whose birth though great it were,
Yet haue after fortunes prou'd but poore:
When wert borne how little did I feare
be thrust from forth Fathers doore.
Art not Herods right begotten Sonne?
VVas not the haples D[…]ris, H[…]rods wife?
Yes: he had the Hebrew kingdome wonne,
I was companion to his priuate life.
VVas I not faire enough to be a Queene?
Why wert to me false Monarch tide,
My lake of beauty might as well be seene,
As after I had liu'd fiue yeeres Bride.
Yet then oath came powring like the raine,
Which all affirm'd my face without compare:
And that if might'st Doris loue obtaine,
For all the world besides not care.
Then was I yong, and rich, and nobly borne,
And therefore worthy to be Herods mate:
Yet vngratefull cast me off with scorne,
When Heauens purpose raisd your meaner fate.
haue I begd for vengeance for this fact,
And with deiected knees, aspiring hands
Haue prayd the highest power to inact
The fall of her that on my Trophee stand[…].
Reuenge I haue according to my will,
Yet where I wisht this vengeance did not light:
I wisht it should high-he[…]rted Mariam kill.
But it against my whilome Lord did fight
With sweet Boy I came, and came to try
If before his bastards might be plac'd
In Herods royall seat and dignitie.
But Mariams infants here are onely grac'd,
And now for vs there no hope remaine:
Yet we will not returne till Herods end
Be more confirmd, he is not slaine.
So glorious Fortunes may my Boy attend,
For if he liue, hee'll thinke it suffice,
That he to Doris shows such crueltie:
For as he did my wretched li[…]e dispise,
So doe I know I shall despised die.
Let him but proue as naturall to ,
As cruell to miserable mother:
His crueltie shall not vpbraided bee
But in fortunes. I his faults will smother.