The Saints Sacrifice, Title page – Dramatis personae
THE STRANGE DISCOVERY: A Tragi-Comedy.
Written By J. Gough. Gent.
LONDON, …rinted by E. G. for William Leake, and are to be ſold at his ſhop in Chancery-lane, joyning to the Roles. 1640.
The Prologue.
HOw's this, The ſtrange diſcovery, may ſome ſay,
Tis likely we ſhall ſee ſome glorious Play
Of Chriſtopher Columbus, and his brother,
Whoſe navigable pa…es did firſt diſcover
America.That unknowne world, thinking the far fetch'd ſceane,
To be Peru, and th' Indies, but to w…ane
Your expectations from this golden dreame,
Our Author bad me …ell you, that the ſcope▪
Of his intended travell's Aethiope,
There he begins, there ends, but as he paſſes
To and againe, toucheth at many places,
As Egypts f…rtile ſoile and learned Greece,
Yet as heroicke Jaſon ſought the fleece
In divers coaſts, but in the ſtately Ile
Of Colchos gate it by Medeas guile,
So he in Aethiopia ſetteth downe
The period of his plot, which but a frowne
Of yours will ruinate, your gracious eyes,
Raiſe to the height of Jaſons enterpriſe.
The Hiſtory is candid, crown'd with praiſe,
So let the play be too, our Poet prayes.
The perſons of the Play.
HYdaſpes, King of Aethiopia.
Perſina, his Queene.
Cariclea, their daughter.
Syſimethres, a Gymnoſophiſt Embaſſadour for the King,
Caricles, Apollos Prieſt.
Calaſiris, Iſis Prieſt.
Ariſtippus, a Citizen of Athens.
Demeneta, his wife.
Cnemon, Ariſtippus ſonne.
Thisbe, Demenetas maid.
Arſinoe, a Courtezan.
Nebulo, Caricles man.
Nebulona, hi… wife.
Theagines, a Theſſalian Cap▪taine.
Arſace, wife to the Deput… of Aegypt.
Cibile, her Chamberlain… nurſe, and bawd.
Aura, Cibiles mayd.
4 Iudges, Magiſtrates of Perſi…
Beſides meſſengers and attendance.