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AN OFFICER of the Papal Household. VANNOZZA CATANEI, surnamed LA ROSA, concubine to the Pope. LUCREZIA BORGIA, daughter to Alexander and Vannozza. SCENE: ROME. TIME: JUNE 14--JULY 22, 1497. SCENE I The Vatican Enter CAESAR and VANNOZZA CAESAR Now, mother, though thou love my brother more, Am I not more thy son than he? VANNOZZA Not more. CAESAR Have I more Spaniard in me--less of thee? Did our Most Holiest father thrill thy womb With more Italian passion than brought forth Me? VANNOZZA Child, thine elder never was as thou - Spake never thus. CAESAR I doubt it not. But I, Mother, am not mine elder. He desires And he enjoys the life God gives him--God, The Pope our father, and thy sacred self, Mother beloved and hallowed. I desire More. VANNOZZA Thou wast ever sleepless as the wind - A child anhungered for thy time to be Man. See thy purple about thee. Art thou not Cardinal? CAESAR Ay; my father's eminence Set so the stamp on mine. I will not die Cardinal. VANNOZZA Caesar, wilt thou cleave my heart? Have I not loved thee? CAESAR Ay, fair mother--ay. Thou hast loved my father likewise. Dost thou love Giulia--the sweet Farnese--called the Fair In all the Roman streets that call thee Rose? And that bright babe Giovanni, whom our sire, Thy holy lord and hers, hath stamped at birth As duke of Nepi? VANNOZZA When thy sire begat Thee, sinful though he ever was--fierce, fell, Spaniard--I fear me, Jesus for his sins Bade Satan pass into him. CAESAR And fill thee full, Sweet sinless mother. Fear it not. Thou hast Children more loved of him and thee than me - Our bright Francesco, born to smile and sway, And her whose face makes pale the sun in heaven, Whose eyes outlaugh the splendour of the sea, Whose hair has all noon's wonders in its weft, Whose mouth is God's and Italy's one rose, Lucrezia. VANNOZZA Dost thou love them then? My child, How should not I then love thee? CAESAR God alone Knows. Was not God--the God of love, who bade His son be man because he hated man, And saw him scourged and hanging, and at last Forgave the sin wherewith he had stamped us, seeing So fair a full atonement--was not God Bridesman when Christ's crowned vicar took to bride My mother? VANNOZZA Speak not thou to me of God. I have sinned, I have sinned--I would I had died a nun, Cloistered! CAESAR There too my sire had found thee. Priests Make way where warriors dare not--save when war Sets wide the floodgates of the weirs of hell. And what hast thou to do with sin? Hath he Whose sin was thine not given thee there and then God's actual absolution? Mary lived God's virgin, and God's mother: mine art thou, Who am Christlike even as thou art virginal. And if thou love me or love me not God knows, And God, who made me and my sire and thee, May take the charge upon him. I am I. Somewhat I think to do before my day Pass from me. Did I love thee not at all, I would not bid thee know it. VANNOZZA Alas, my son! CAESAR Alas, my mother, sounds no sense for men - Rings but reverberate folly, whence resounds Returning laughter. Weep or smile on me, Thy sunshine or thy rainbow softens not The mortal earth wherein thou hast clad me. Nay, But rather would I see thee smile than weep, Mother. Thou art lovelier, smiling. VANNOZZA What is this Thou hast at heart to do? God's judgment hangs Above us. I that girdled thee in me As Mary girdled Jesus yet unborn - Thou dost believe it? A creedless heretic Thou art not? CAESAR I? God's vicar's child? VANNOZZA Be God Praised! I, then, I, thy mother, bid thee, pray, Pray thee but say what hungers in thy heart, And whither thou wouldst hurl the strenuous life That works within thee. CAESAR Whither? Am not I Hinge of the gate that opens heaven--that bids God open when my sire thrusts in the key - Cardinal? Canst thou dream I had rather be Duke? Enter FRANCESCO FRANCESCO Wilt thou take mine office, Caesar mine? I heard thy laugh deride it. Mother, whence Comes that sweet gift of grace from dawn to dawn That daily shows thee sweeter? CAESAR Knowest thou none Lovelier? VANNOZZA My Caesar finds me not so fair. Thou art over fond, Francesco. CAESAR Nay, no whit. Our heavenly father on earth adores no less Our mother than our sister: and I hold His heart and eye, his spirit and his sense, Infallible. Enter the POPE ALEXANDER Jest not with God. I heard A holy word, a hallowing epithet, Cardinal Caesar, trip across thy tongue Lightly. CAESAR Most holiest father, I desire Paternal absolution--when thy laugh Has waned from lip and eyelid. ALEXANDER Take it now, And Christ preserve thee, Caesar, as thou art, To serve him as I serve him. Rose of mine, My rose of roses, whence has fallen this dew That dims the sweetest eyes love ever lit With light that mocks the morning? VANNOZZA Nay, my lord, I know not--nay, I knew not if I wept. ALEXANDER Our sons and Christ's and Peter's whom we praise, Are they--are these--fallen out? FRANCESCO Not I with him, Nor he, I think, with me. CAESAR Forbid it, God! The God that set thee where thou art, and there Sustains thee, bids the love he kindles bind Brother to brother. ALEXANDER God or no God, man Must live and let man live--while one man's life Galls not another's. Fools and fiends are men Who play the fiend that is not. Why shouldst thou, Girt with the girdle of the church, and given Power to preside on spirit and flesh--or thou, Clothed with the glad world's glory--priest or prince, Turn on thy brother an evil eye, or deem Your father God hath dealt his doom amiss Toward either or toward any? Hath not Rome, Hath not the Lord Christ's kingdom, where his will Is done on earth, enough of all that man Thirsts, hungers, lusts for--pleasure, pride, and power - To sate you and to share between you? Whence Should she, the godless heathen's goddess once, Discord, heave up her hissing head again Between love's Christian children--love's? Hath God Cut short the thrill that glorifies the flesh, Chilled the sharp rapturous pang that burns the blood, Because an hundred even as twain at once Partake it? Boys, my boys, be wise, and rest, Whatever fire take hold upon your flesh, Whatever dream set all your life on fire, Friends. CAESAR Friends? Our father on earth, thy will be done. FRANCESCO Christ's body, Caesar! dost thou mock? CAESAR Not I. Hast thou fallen out with me, then, that thy tongue Disclaims its lingering utterance? ALEXANDER Now, by nought, As nought abides to swear by, folly seen So plain and heard so loud might well nigh make Wise men believe in even the devil and God. What ails you? Whence comes lightning in your eyes, With hissing hints of thunder on your lips? Fools! and the fools I thought to make for men Gods. Is it love or hate divides you--turns Tooth, fang, or claw, when time provides them prey, To nip, rip, rend each other? CAESAR Hate or love, Francesco? FRANCESCO Why, I hate thee not--thou knowest I hate thee not, my Caesar. CAESAR I believe Thou dost not hate or love or envy me; Even as I know, and knowing believe, we all - Our father, thou and I--triune in heart - Hold loveliest of all living things to love This. Enter LUCREZIA LUCREZIA Mother! What do tears and thou for once Together? Rain in sunshine? VANNOZZA Ask thy sire, Am I not now the moon? Saint Anna bore Saint Mary Virgin--did not God prefer The child, and thrust behind with scarce a smile The mother? ALEXANDER Thrust not out thy thorns at heaven, Rose. LUCREZIA But what ailed her? And she will not say. CAESAR Sister, I sinned--sin must be mine. A word Fell out askance between us, and she wept Because our father chid us. LUCREZIA How should strife Find here a tongue to hiss with? Are not we, Brothers and sire and sister, sealed of God Lovers--made one in love? ALEXANDER Deride not God, Lucrezia. LUCREZIA Father, dost thou fear him, then? ALEXANDER I say not and I know not if I fear. FRANCESCO Thou canst not. Father, were he terrible, How long wouldst thou live--thou, his mask on earth? ALEXANDER Boy, art thou all a child? What knew they more, The men that loved and feared and died for God, Than I and thou who know him not? We know This life is ours, and sweet, if shame and fear Make us not less than man: and less were they Who crawled and writhed and cowered and called on God To save them from him. Here I stand as he, God, or God's very figure wrought in flesh, More godlike than was Jesus. Dare I fear Whipping and hanging? Thou, my cardinal, Canst think not to be scourged and crucified - Ha? CAESAR Nay: there lurks no God in me. And thou, Father, dost thou fear? ALEXANDER I? Nought less than God. But if we take him lightly on our lips Too light his name will sound in all men's ears Till earth and air, when man says God, respond Laughter. Forbear him. CAESAR Wisdom lives in thee, And cries not out along the streets as when None of God's folk that heard regarded her, As all that hear thy word regard--or die, Being not outside God's eyeshot. Dost thou sleep Here in his special keeping--here--to-night, Brother? FRANCESCO What bids thee care to know? CAESAR They say These holy streets of heaven's most holiest choice Lie dangerous now in darkness if a man Walk not on holiest errands. Thou, they say, Wert scarce a Christlike sacrifice if slain. Too many dead flow down the Tiber's flow Nightly. They say it. FRANCESCO I never called thee yet Fool. CAESAR Ah, my lord and brother, didst thou now, Were this not thankless? God--our father's God - Guide thee! [Exit FRANCESCO. He goes, and thanks me not. Our sire, What says the God that lives upon thy lips And withers in thy silence? LUCREZIA Vex him not, Caesar. Thou seest he is weary. ALEXANDER Yea. Come ye With me. Bethink thee, Caesar. Vex me not. Exeunt ALEXANDER, VANNOZZA, and LUCREZIA. CAESAR Thou wilt not bid me this, I think, again, Father. Enter MICHELOTTO Thou art swift of speed at need. I bade thee Abide my bidding. MICHELOTTO Till my lord were left Alone. CAESAR Thou knewest it? MICHELOTTO Where my lord may be And what beseems his thrall to know of him I were not worthy, knew I not, to know. CAESAR I do not ask thee where my brother sleeps. And where to-morrow sees him yet asleep - MICHELOTTO Ask of the fishers' nets on Tiber. CAESAR Nay - Not I but Rome shall ask it. Pass in peace. The benediction of my sire be thine. [Exeunt. SCENE II A narrow street opening on the Tiber Enter MICHELOTTO and ASSASSINS MICHELOTTO Ye know the lordlier harlot's house--there? FIRST ASSASSIN Ay, Surely. MICHELOTTO The first whose foot comes forth is he. SECOND ASSASSIN How know we this? MICHELOTTO I know it. Ye need but slay. [Exit. Enter FRANCESCO FRANCESCO (singing) Love and night are life and light; Sleep and wine and song Speed and slay the halting day Ere it live too long. FIRST ASSASSIN That shalt not thou. Sing, whosoe'er thou be, Thy next of songs to Satan. [They stab him. FRANCESCO Dogs! Ye dare? God! Pity me! God! [Dies. SECOND ASSASSIN God receive his soul! This was a Christian: many a man I have slain Died with all hell between his lips. FIRST ASSASSIN Be thine Dumb. Lift his feet as I the head. SECOND ASSASSIN A boy! And fair of face as angels FIRST ASSASSIN If the nets Snare not this fish betimes ere others feed, None that shall heave it airward for the sun To mock and mar shall say so. Bring him down. Tiber hath fed on choicer fare than we May think to feed his throat with ere we die. [Exeunt with the body. SCENE III The Vatican ALEXANDER and LUCREZIA ALEXANDER The day burns high. Thou hast not seen them--thou? LUCREZIA My brethren, sire? Nay, not since yesternight. ALEXANDER The night is newly dead. Since yestereven? LUCREZIA Nor then. I saw them when we parted here Last. ALEXANDER I believe thou liest not. Girl, the day Looks pale before thy glory. Brow, cheek, eye, Lips, throat, and bosom, thou dost overshine All womanhood man ever worshipped. Once I held thy mother fairest born of all That ever turned old Rome to heaven. Thou hast read Her golden Horace? LUCREZIA Else were I cast out From all their choir who serve the Muses. ALEXANDER Ay. 'Fair mother's fairer daughter,' dost thou deem That praise was ever merited as by thee? I cannot. LUCREZIA I concern myself no whit If so it were or were not. ALEXANDER Thou dost well. Thou hast not seen, thou sayest, Francesco? LUCREZIA Nay - Give me some reliquary to swear it on - Some rosary--crucifix or amulet, Sorcerous or sacred. ALEXANDER Never twins were born More like than thou and he--nor lovelier: yet No twins were ye. LUCREZIA What ails thy Holiness? ALEXANDER I am ill at ease: my heart is sick. Last night No revel here was held, and yet the day Strikes heavier on me wearier, body and soul, Than though we had rioted out with raging mirth The lifelong length of darkness. LUCREZIA Evil hours Fret somewhiles all folk living; none sees why: No child sleeps always all night long. ALEXANDER Wast thou Wakeful? No trouble clung about thee? Nought Made the air of night heavier with presage felt As joy feels fear and withers? I am not Afraid: methinks I am very fear itself. Enter an Officer of the household OFFICER His holiness be gracious towards me. ALEXANDER Speak. Thy face is death's: let death upon thy lips Live. OFFICER Sire, the humblest hireling knave in Rome - A waterman that plies his craft all night - Craves audience even of thee. ALEXANDER A Roman? OFFICER Nay. Some outlander--some Greek--they call the knave George the Slavonian. ALEXANDER They? OFFICER The fisherfolk On Tiber. ALEXANDER Bid him in: bid God himself Come in with doom upon me. [Exit Officer. Hear'st thou, child - Daughter? LUCREZIA What horror hangs on thee? ALEXANDER Abide, And thou shalt know as I know. Enter GIORGIO SCHIAVONE Speak. I say, Speak. What thou art I know: and what I am Thou knowest--and yet thou knowest not. GIORGIO Holiest sire, Last night I kept my boat on Tiber--Sire, The thing I saw was nothing of my deed - It shook me out of sleep to see it--Lord, Have mercy: look not so upon me. ALEXANDER Dog, Speak, while thy tongue is thine. GIORGIO Two men came down And peered along the water-side: and two Came after--men whose eyes raked all the night, Searching the shore--I lay beneath my boat - Beside it on the darkling side--and saw. Then came a horseman--Sire, his horse was white - The moonshine made his mane like dull white fire - And on his crupper heavily hung a corpse, Arms held from swaying on this side, legs on that, I know not which on either--but the men Held fast that held: and hard on Tiber side They swung the crupper towards the water--sharp And swift as man may steer a horse--and caught And slung their dead into the stream: and he Drifted, and caught the moon across his face That shone like life against it: and the chief Till then sat silent as the moon at watch, And then bade hurl stones on the drifting dead And sink him out of sight; and seeing this done, Rode thence, and they strode after. ALEXANDER Man, and thou - Thou? GIORGIO Sire, I set my heart again to sleep: I turned and slept under my boatside. ALEXANDER Man - Dog--devil, if this be truth, and if my fear Lie not--how hadst thou heart to hold thy peace? How comes it that the warders of the shore Knew not of thee, while yet the crime was hot, What crime had made night hell? GIORGIO A thousand times I have seen such sights, but never till this hour Seen him who cared to hear of them. ALEXANDER Till now, Never. He looks in God's mute face and mine, And says it. God be good to me! But God Will not--or is not. Where is then thy dead, Devil, called of God from hell to smite--to scourge - Me? GIORGIO Sire, at hand I left him. ALEXANDER Stir not. Bid Thy fellows bring my dead before me. [Exit Officer. Nay, But mine it is not yet--it may not be Mine--while it may not be, it is not. Child, It shall not be thy brother. Pray no prayer. Prayer never yet brought profit. Be not pale. Fear strikes more deep into the fearful heart The wound it heals not. Enter Officers with the body of FRANCESCO What is he they bring? O God! Thou livest! And my child is dead! [Falls. SCENE IV The Vatican ALEXANDER and CAESAR ALEXANDER Thou hast done this deed. CAESAR Thou hast said it. ALEXANDER Dost thou think To live, and look upon me? CAESAR Some while yet. ALEXANDER I would there were a God--that he might hear. CAESAR 'Tis pity there should be--for thy sake--none. ALEXANDER Wilt thou slay me? CAESAR Why? ALEXANDER Am not I thy sire? CAESAR And Christendom's to boot. ALEXANDER I pray thee, man, Slay me. CAESAR And then myself? Thou art crazed, but I Sane. ALEXANDER Art thou very flesh and blood? CAESAR They say, Thine. ALEXANDER If the heaven stand still and smite thee not, There is no God indeed. CAESAR Nor thou nor I Know. ALEXANDER I could pray to God that God might be, Were I but mad. Thou sayest I am mad: thou liest: I do not pray. CAESAR Most holiest father, no. Thy brain is not so sick yet. Thou and God Friends? Man, how long would God have let thee live - Thee? ALEXANDER Long enough he hath kept me, to behold His face as fire--if his it be--and earth As hell--and thee, begotten of my loins, Satan. CAESAR The firstfruits of thy fatherhood Were something less than Satan. Man of God, Vaunt not thyself. ALEXANDER I would I had died in the womb. CAESAR Thou shalt do better, dying in Peter's chair: Thou shalt die famous. ALEXANDER Ay: no screen from that, No shelter, no forgetfulness on earth. We shall be famed for ever. Hell and night, Cover me! CAESAR Hast thou heard that prayers are heard? Or hast thou known earth, for a man's cry's sake, Cleave, and devour him? ALEXANDER I have done this thing. Thou hast not done it: thy deed is none of thine: Upon my hand, upon my head, the blood Rests. CAESAR Wilt thou sleep the worse for this next year? ALEXANDER I will not live a seven days' space beyond This. CAESAR Thou hast lived thy seven days' space in hell, Father: they say thou hast fasted even from sleep. ALEXANDER Ay. CAESAR What they say and what thou sayest I hold False. Though thou hast wept as woman, howled as wolf, Above our dead, thou art hale and whole. And now Behoves thee rise again as Christ our God, Vicarious Christ, and cast as flesh away This grief from off thy godhead. I and thou, One, will set hand as never God hath set To the empire and the steerage of the world. Do thou forget but him who is dead, and was Nought, and bethink thee what a world to wield The eternal God hath given into thine hands Which daily mould him out of bread, and give His kneaded flesh to feed on. Thou and I Will make this rent and ruinous Italy One. Ours it shall be, body and soul, and great Above all power and glory given of God To them that died to set thee where thou art - Throned on the dust of Caesar and of Christ, Imperial. Earth shall quail again, and rise Again the higher because she trembled. Rome So bade it be: it was, and shall be. ALEXANDER Son, Art thou my son? CAESAR Whom should thy radiant Rose Have found so fit to ingraff with, and bring forth So strong a scion as I am? ALEXANDER By my faith - Wherein, I know not--by my soul, if that Be--I believe it. God forgot his doom When he thou hast slain drew breath before thee CAESAR God Must needs forget--if God remember. Now This thing thou hast loved, and I that swept him hence Held never fit for hate of mine, is dead, Wilt thou be one with me--one God? No less, Lord Christ of Rome, thou wilt be. ALEXANDER Ay? The Dove? CAESAR What dove, though lovelier than the swan that lured Leda to love of God on earth, might match Lucrezia? ALEXANDER None. Thou art subtle of soul and strong. I would thou hadst spared him--couldst have spared him. CAESAR Sire, I would so too. Our sire, his sire and mine, I slew not him for lust of slaying, or hate, Or aught less like thy wiser spirit and mine. ALEXANDER Not for the dove's sake? CAESAR Not for hate or love. Death was the lot God bade him draw, if God Be more than what we make him. ALEXANDER Bread and wine Could hardly turn so bitter. Canst thou sleep? 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