PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE; A DRAMATIC ROMANCE, IN TWO PARTS. BY HENRY TAYLOR, ESQ. "Dramatica Poesis est veluti Historia spectabilis." BACON DE AUGMENTIS. VOL. II. CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. M DCCC XXXV. "No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of Man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." LEVIATHAN, Part I. c. 18. DRAMATIS PERSONE. MEN OF FLANDERS. PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE, Regent of Flanders. VAUCLAIRE, Officers of his in command at Ypres. ROOSDYK, VAN RYK, VAN MUCK, Officers in his camp before Oudenarde. FATHER JOHN OF HEDA. A PAGE of Van Artevelde's. A FRIAR. VAN STOCKENSTROM, VAN WHELK, Citizens of Ypres. THE BURGOMASTER AND DIVERS BURGESSES OF YPRES, OFFICERS, MESSENGERS, &c. MEN OF FRANCE. KING CHARLES THE SIXTH. THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY and BOURBON, his Uncles. SIR FLEUREANT OF HEURLÉE, a Follower of the Duke of Bourbon. SIR OLIVER OF CLISSON, Constable of France. SIR JOHN DE VIEN, Admiral of France. THE LORDS OF SAIMPI, SANXere, and ST. JUST; SIR RAOUL OF RANEVAL; THE LORD OF COUCY, AND MANY OTHER LORDS AND KNIGHTS BELONGING TO THE FRENCH KING'S COUNCIL. TRISTRAM OF LESTOVET, Clerk of the Council. WOMEN. ELENA DELLA TORRE, an Italian Lady. CECILE, her Attendant. DAME VOORST, a Woman of Ypres. The SCENE is laid sometimes in FLANDERS and sometimes in FRANCE. a |