time enough to go home. What fhall I fay I have done? it must be a very plaufive invention that carries it. They begin to fmoke me, and difgraces have of late knock'd too often at my door: I find my tongue is too fool-hardy; but my heart hath the fear of Mars before it, and of his creatures, not daring the reports of my tongue. Lord. This is the firft truth that e'er thine own tongue was guilty of. [Afide. Par. What the devil fhould move me to undertake the recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the impoffibility, and knowing I had no fuch purpofe? I muft give myself fome hurts, and fay, I got them in exploit. Yet flight ones will not carry it; they will fay, Came you off with fo little? and great ones I dare not give; wherefore what's the inftance? Tongue, Î muft put you into a butter-woman's mouth, and buy myself another of Bajazet's mute, if you prattle me into these perils. Lord. Is it poffible he fhould know what he is, and be that he is?' [Afide. Par. I would the cutting of my garments would ferve the turn, or the breaking of my Spanish fword. Lord. We cannot afford you fo. [Afide. Par. Or the baring of my beard, and to say it was in ftratagem, Lord. Twould not do. Par. Or to drown my cloaths, and fay I was ftript. [Afide. Lord. Hardly ferve. [Afide. Par. Though I fwore I leapt from the window of the citadel Lord. How deep? [Afide. Par. Thirty fathom. Lord. Three great oaths would fcarce make that be believed. [Afide. Par. I would I had any drum of the enemy's; I would fwear I recover'd it. Lord. You fhall hear one anon. [Afide. [Alarum within. Lord. Throco movoufus, cargo, cargo, cargo. Par. Par. Oh! ranfom ranfom :-do not hide mine eyes. [They feize him, and blindfold him.. Inter. Bofkos thromaldo bofkos. Par. I know, you are the Muskos regiment, I'll discover that which fhall undo the Florentine. Inter. Bofkos vauvado; I understand thee, and can speak thy tongue; Kerelybonto,-Sir, betake thee to thy faith, for feventeen poniards are at thy bofom. Par. Oh! Int. Oh, pray, pray, pray. Lord. Ofceoribi dulchos volivorco. Int. The general is content to spare thee yet, And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on To gather from thee. Haply thou may'ft inform Something to fave thy life. Par. Oh let me live, And all the fecrets of our camp I'll fhew; Int. But wilt thou faithfully? Par. If I do not, damn me. Int. Acorda linta. Come on, thou art granted space. [Exit. [A fhort alarum within. Lord. Go, tell the Count Roufillon and my brother, We've caught the woodcock, and will keep him muff Till we do hear from them. Sol. Captain, I will. Lord. He will betray us all unto ourselves. Inform 'em that. Sol. So I will, Sir. [led Lord. Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Changes to the widow's house. Enter Bertram and Diana. Ber. They told me that your name was Fontibell. Dia. No, my good Lord, Diana. Ber. Titled goddefs, And worth it with addition! but, fair foul, When you are dead, you should be fuch a one Dia. She then was honeft. Ber. So fhould you be. Dia. No. My mother did but duty; fuch, my Lord, Ber. No more o' that! I pr'ythee do not strive against my vows: By love's own fweet constraint, and will for ever Dia. Ay, fo ferve us, you Till we ferve you: but when you have our roses, Ber. How have I fworn! Dia. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; I lov'd you dearly, would you believe my oaths, That I will work against him. Therefore your oaths Ber. Change it, change it: Be not fo holy-cruel. Love is holy, And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts That you do charge men with: ftand no more off, But give thyself unto my fick defires, Which then recover. Say, thou art mine; and ever My My love, as it begins, fhall fo perfever. Dia. I fee that men make hopes in fuch affairs That we'll forfake ourselves. Give me that ring. Ber. I'll lend it thee, my dear, but have no power To give it from me. Dia. Will you not, my Lord? Ber. It is an honour 'longing to our house, Which were the greatest obloquy i' th' world . Dia. Mine honour's fuch a ring; Ber. Here, take my ring. My houfe, my honour, yea, my life, be thine, Dia. When midnight comes, knock at my chamber I'll order take my mother fhall not hear. [window; Now will I charge you in the band of truth, My reafons are most strong, and you shall know them, Ber. A heav'n on earth I've won by wooing thee. [Exit. Dia. For which live long to thank both heav'n and You may fo in the end. My mother told me just how he would woo, [me. Have the like oaths: he had fworn to marry me, H Only, Only, in this disguise, I think no fin. [Exit. SCENE III. Changes to the French camp in Florence Enter the two French Lords and two or three foldiers. 1 Lord. You have not given him his mother's letter? 2 Lord. I have deliver'd it an hour fince; there is fomething in't that fting's his nature; for, on the reading it, he change'd almost into another man. him 1 Lord. He has much worthy blame laid upon for fhaking off fo good a wife, and fo fweet a.lady. 2 Lord. Efpecially he hath incurred the everlasting displeasure of the King, who had even tun'd his bounty to fing happinefs to him. I will tell you a thing, but you fhall let it dwell darkly with you. I Lord. When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and L am the grave of it. 2 Lord. He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour : he hath given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself made in the unchafte.compofition. 1 Lord. Now God delay our rebellion; as we are ourselves, what things we are! 2 Lord. Merely our own traitors; and as, in the common courfe of all treasons, we still see them reveal themselves, till they attain to their abhorr'd ends; fo he that in this action contrives against his own nobility, in his proper ftream o'erflows himself. 1 Lord. Is it not meant damnable in us to be the trumpeters of our unlawful intents? we fhall not then have his company to-night? 2 Lord. Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour. I Lord. That approaches apace. I would gladly have him fee his company anatomiz'd, that, he might take a measure of his own judgment, wherein fo curioufly he had fet this counterfeit. 2 Lord. We will not meddle with him till he come; for his prefence must be the whip of the other. I Lǝrd. |