280From whence they haue their nouri
shment?
¶Per. Thou knowe
st I haue power to take thy life from
(thee.
¶Hel. I haue ground the Axe my
selfe,
¶Doe but you
strike the blowe
.
¶Per. Ri
se, prethee ri
se,
sit downe, thou art no flatterer,
285I thanke thee fort, and heaue forbid
¶That kings
should let their eares heare their faults hid.
¶Fit Coun
sellor, and
seruant for a Prince,
¶Who by thy wi
sdome makes a Prince thy
seruant,
¶What would
st thou haue me doe?
290Hel. To beare with patience
such griefes as you your
¶selfe doe lay vpon your
selfe
.
¶Per. Thou
speak
st like a Phy
sition
Hellicanus,
¶That mini
sters a potion vnto me:
¶That thou would
st tremble to receiue thy
selfe,
295Attend me then, I went to
Antioch,
¶Where
_as thou know
st again
st the face of death,
¶I
sought the purcha
se of a glorious beautie,
¶From whence an i
ssue I might propogate,
¶Are armes to Princes, and bring ioies to
subiects,
300Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder,
¶The re
st harke in thine eare, as blacke as ince
st,
¶Which by my knowledge found, the
sinful father
¶Seemde not to
strike, but
smooth, but thou know
st this,
¶Tis time to feare when tyrants
seemes to ki
sse.
305Which feare
so grew in me I hither fled,
¶Vnder the couering of a carefull night,
¶Who
seemd my good protector, and being here,
¶Bethought what was pa
st, what might
succeed,
¶I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants feare
310Decrea
se not, but grow fa
ster then the yeares,
¶And
should he doo't, as no doubt he doth,
¶That I
should open to the li
stning ayre ,
¶How m
any worthie Princes blouds were
shed,
¶To keepe his bed of blackne
sse vnlayde ope,
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