2008L. E Go tell the Count Rossillionand my brother,

2009We haue caught the woodcocke, and will keepe him (mufled

2010Till we do heare from them.

2011Sol Captaine I will.

2012L. E A will betray vs all vnto our selues,

2013Informe on that.

2014Sol So I will sir.

2015L. E Till then Ile keepe him darke and safely lockt.

2019Ber They told me that your name was Fontybell

2020Dia No my good Lord, Diana

2021Ber Titled Goddesse,

2022And worth it with addition: but faire soule,

2023In your fine frame hath loue no qualitie?

2024If the quicke fire of youth light not your minde,

2025You are no Maiden but a monument

2026When you are dead you should be such a one

2027As you are now: for you are cold and sterne,

2028And now you should be as your mother was

2029When your sweet selfe was got.

2030Dia She then was honest.

2031Ber So should you be.

2032Dia No:

2033My mother did but dutie, such (my Lord)

2034As you owe to your wife.

2035Ber No more a'that:

2036I prethee do not striue against my vowes:

2037I was compell'd to her, but I loue thee

2038By loues owne sweet constraint, and will for euer

2039Do thee all rights of seruice.

2040Dia I so you serue vs

2041Till we serue you: But when you haue our Roses,

2042You barely leaue our thornes to pricke our selues,

2043And mocke vs with our barenesse.

2044Ber How haue I sworne.

2045Dia Tis not the many oathes that makes the truth,

2046But the plaine single vow, that is vow'd true:

2047What is not holie, that we sweare not by,

2048But take the high'st to witnesse: then pray you tell me,

2049If I should sweare by Ioues great attributes,

2050I lou'd you deerely, would you beleeue my oathes,

2051When I did loue you ill? This ha's no holding

2052To sweare by him whom I protest to loue

2053That I will worke against him. Therefore your oathes

2054Are words and poore conditions, but vnseal'd

2055At lest in my opinion.

2056Ber Change it, change it:

2057Be not so holy cruell: Loue is holie,

2058And my integritie ne're knew the crafts

2059That you do charge men with: Stand no more off,

2060But giue thy selfe vnto my sicke desires,

2061Who then recouers. Say thou art mine, and euer

2062My loue as it beginnes, shall so perseuer.

2063Dia I see that men make rope's in such a scarre,

2064That wee'l forsake our selues. Giue me that Ring.

2065Ber Ile lend it thee my deere; but haue no power

2066To giue it from me.

2067Dia Will you not my Lord?

2068Ber It is an honour longing to our house,

2069Bequeathed downe from manie Ancestors,

2070Which were the greatest obloquie i'th world,

2071In me to loose.

2072Dian Mine Honors such a Ring,

2073My chastities the Iewell of our house,

2074Bequeathed downe from many Ancestors,

2075Which were the greatest oblo quie i'th world,

2076In mee to loose. Thus your owne proper wisedome

2077Brings in the Champion honor on my part,

2078Against your vaine assault.

2079Ber Heere, take my Ring,

2080My house, mine honor, yea my life be thine,

2081And Ile be bid by thee.

2082Dia When midnight comes, knocke at my cham-

2083 ber window:

2084Ile order take, my mother shall not heare.

2085Now will I charge you in the band of truth,

2086When you haue conquer'd my yet maiden-bed,

2087Remaine there but an houre, nor speake to mee:

2088My reasons are most strong, and you shall know them,

2089When backe againe this Ring shall be deliuer'd:

2090And on your finger in the night, Ile put

2091Another Ring, that what in time proceeds,

2092May token to the future, our past deeds.

2093Adieu till then, then faile not: you haue wonne

2094A wife of me, though there my hope be done.

2095Ber A heauen on earth I haue won by wooing thee.

2096Di For which, liue long to thank both heauen & me,

2097You may so in the end.

2098My mother told me iust how he would woo,

2099As if she sate in's heart. She sayes, all men

2100Haue the like oathes: He had sworne to marrie me

2101When his wife's dead: therfore Ile lye with him

2102When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braide,

2103Marry that will, I liue and die a Maid:

2104Onely in this disguise, I think't no sinne,

2105To cosen him that would vniustly winne. Exit

2108Cap. G You haue not giuen him his mothers letter.

2109Cap. E I haue deliu'red it an houre since, there is som

2110thing in't that stings his nature: for on the reading it,

2111he chang'd almost into another man.

2112Cap. G He has much worthy blame laid vpon him,

2113for shaking off so good a wife, and so sweet a Lady.

2114Cap. E Especially, hee hath incurred the euerlasting

2115displeasure of the King, who had euen tun'd his bounty

2116to sing happinesse to him. I will tell you a thing, but

2117you shall let it dwell darkly with you.

2118Cap. G When you haue spoken it 'tis dead, and I am

2119the graue of it.

2120Cap. E Hee hath peruerted a young Gentlewoman

2121heere in Florence of a most chaste renown, & this night

2122he fleshes his will in the spoyle of her honour: hee hath

2123giuen her his monumentall Ring, and thinkes himselfe

2124made in the vnchaste composition.

2125Cap. G Now God delay our rebellion as we are our

2126selues, what things are we.

2127Cap. E Meerely our owne traitours. And as in the

2128common course of all treasons, we still see them reueale

2129themselues, till they attaine to their abhorr'd ends: so

2130he that in this action contriues against his owne Nobi-

2131lity in his proper streame, ore-flowes himselfe.

2132Cap. G Is it not meant damnable in vs, to be Trum-

2133peters of our vnlawfull intents? We shall not then haue

2134his company to night?

2135Cap. E Not till after midnight: for hee is dieted to

2136his houre.

2137Cap. G That approaches apace: I would gladly haue

2138him see his company anathomiz'd, that hee might take