12811208Bastard If your leisure seru'd, I would speake with you.

12821209Prince In priuate?

12831210Bastard If it please you, yet Count Claudio may heare, for

12841211what I would speake of, concernes him.

12851212Prince Whats the matter?

12861213Bast. Meanes your Lordship to be married to morrow?

12881214Prince You know he does.

12891215Bast. I know not that when he knowes what I know.

12901216Claud. If there be any impediment, I pray you discouer it.

12921217Bast. You may think I loue you not, let that appeare here-

12931218after, and ayme better at me by that I now will manifest, for

12941219my brother (I thinke, he holdes you well, and in dearenesse of

12951220heart) hath holpe to effect your ensuing mariage: surely sute ill

12961221spent, and labor ill bestowed.

12971222Prince Why whats the matter?

12981223Bast. I came hither to tel you, and circumstances shortned,

12991224(for she has bin too long a talking of) the lady is disloyall.

13011225Clau. Who Hero?

13021226Bastar. Euen she, Leonatoes Hero, your Hero, euery mans

13031227Hero.

13041228Clau. Disloyall?

13051229Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse, I

13061230could say she were worse, thinke you of a worse title, and I wil

13071231fit her to it: wonder not till further warrant: go but with me

13081232to night you shall see her chamber window entred, euen the

13091233night before her wedding day, if you loue her, then to morow

13101234wed her: But it would better fitte your honour to change your

13111235mind.

13121236Claud. May this be so?

13131237Prince I wil not thinke it.

13141238Bast. If you dare not trust that you see, confesse not that

13151239you knowe: if you will follow mee, I will shew you enough,

13161240and when you haue seene more, and heard more, proceede ac-

13171241cordingly.

13181242Claudio If I see anie thing to night, why I should not mar-

13191243ry her to morrow in the congregation, where I should wed,

13201244there will I shame her.