2914Do not beleeue him. O behold this Ring,

2915Whose high respect and rich validitie

2916Did lacke a Paralell: yet for all that

2917He gaue it to a Commoner a'th Campe

2918If I be one.

2919Coun He blushes, and 'tis hit:

2920Of sixe preceding Ancestors that Iemme

2921Confer'd by testament to'th sequent issue

2922Hath it beene owed and worne. This is his wife,

2923That Ring's a thousand proofes.

2924King Me thought you saide

2925You saw one heere in Court could witnesse it.

2926Dia I did my Lord, but loath am to produce

2927So bad an instrument, his names Parrolles

2928Laf I saw the man to day, if man he bee.

2929Kin Finde him, and bring him hether.

2930Ros What of him:

2931He's quoted for a most perfidious slaue

2932With all the spots a'th world, taxt and debosh'd,

2933Whose nature sickens: but to speake a truth,

2934Am I, or that or this for what he'l vtter,

2935That will speake any thing.

2936Kin She hath that Ring of yours.

2937Ros I thinke she has; certaine it is I lyk'd her,

2938And boorded her i'th wanton way of youth:

2939She knew her distance, and did angle for mee,

2940Madding my eagernesse with her restraint,

2941As all impediments in fancies course

2942Are motiues of more fancie, and in fine,

2943Her insuite comming with her moderne grace,

2944Subdu'd me to her rate, she got the Ring,

2945And I had that which any inferiour might

2946At Market price haue bought.

2947Dia I must be patient:

2948You that haue turn'd off a first so noble wife,

2949May iustly dyet me. I pray you yet,

2950(Since you lacke vertue, I will loose a husband)

2951Send for your Ring, I will returne it home,

2952And giue me mine againe.

2953Ros I haue it not.

2954Kin What Ring was yours I pray you?

2955Dian Sir much like the same vpon your finger.

2956Kin Know you this Ring, this Ring was his of late.

2957Dia And this was it I gaue him being a bed.

2958Kin The story then goes false, you threw it him

2959Out of a Casement.

2960Dia I haue spoke the truth. Enter Parolles

2961Ros My Lord, I do confesse the ring was hers.

2962Kin You boggle shrewdly, euery feather starts you:

2963Is this the man you speake of?

2964Dia I, my Lord.

2965Kin Tell me sirrah, but tell me true I charge you,

2966Not fearing the displeasure of your master:

2967Which on your iust proceeding, Ile keepe off,

2968By him and by this woman heere, what know you?

2969Par So please your Maiesty, my master hath bin an

2970honourable Gentleman. Trickes hee hath had in him,

2971which Gentlemen haue.

2972Kin Come, come, to'th' purpose: Did hee loue this

2973woman?

2974Par Faith sir he did loue her, but how.

2975Kin How I pray you?

2976Par He did loue her sir, as a Gent. loues a Woman.

2977Kin How is that?

2978Par He lou'd her sir, and lou'd her not.

2979Kin As thou art a knaue and no knaue, what an equi-

2980uocall Companion is this?

2981Par I am a poore man, and at your Maiesties com-

2982mand.

2983Laf Hee's a good drumme my Lord, but a naughtie

2984Orator.

2985Dian Do you know he promist me marriage?

2986Par Faith I know more then Ile speake.

2987Kin But wilt thou not speake all thou know'st?

2988Par Yes so please your Maiesty: I did goe betweene

2989them as I said, but more then that he loued her, for in-

2990deede he was madde for her, and talkt of Sathan, and of

2991Limbo, and of Furies, and I know not what: yet I was in

2992that credit with them at that time, that I knewe of their

2993going to bed, and of other motions, as promising her

2994marriage, and things which would deriue mee ill will to

2995speake of, therefore I will not speake what I know.

2996Kin Thou hast spoken all alreadie, vnlesse thou canst

2997say they are maried, but thou art too fine in thy euidence,

2998therefore stand aside. This Ring you say was yours.

2999Dia I my good Lord.

3000Kin Where did you buy it? Or who gaue it you?

3001Dia It was not giuen me, nor I did not buy it.

3002Kin Who lent it you?

3003Dia It was not lent me neither.

3004Kin Where did you finde it then?

3005Dia I found it not.

3006Kin If it were yours by none of all these wayes,

3007How could you giue it him?

3008Dia I neuer gaue it him.

3009Laf This womans an easie gloue my Lord, she goes

3010off and on at pleasure.

3011Kin This Ring was mine, I gaue it his first wife.

3012Dia It might be yours or hers for ought I know.

3013Kin Take her away, I do not like her now,

3014To prison with her: and away with him,

3015Vnlesse thou telst me where thou hadst this Ring,

3016Thou diest within this houre.

3017Dia Ile neuer tell you.

3018Kin Take her away.

3019Dia Ile put in baile my liedge.

3020Kin I thinke thee now some common Customer.

3021Dia By Ioue if euer I knew man 'twas you.

3022King Wherefore hast thou accusde him al this while.

3023Dia Because he's guiltie, and he is not guilty:

3024He knowes I am no Maid, and hee'l sweare too't:

3025Ile sweare I am a Maid, and he knowes not.

3026Great King I am no strumpet, by my life,

3027I am either Maid, or else this old mans wife.

3028Kin She does abuse our eares, to prison with her.

3029Dia Good mother fetch my bayle. Stay Royall sir,

3030The Ieweller that owes the Ring is sent for,

3031And he shall surety me. But for this Lord,

3032Who hath abus'd me as he knowes himselfe,

3033Though yet he neuer harm'd me, heere I quit him.

3034He knowes himselfe my bed he hath defil'd,

3035And at that time he got his wife with childe:

3036Dead though she be, she feeles her yong one kicke:

3037So there's my riddle, one that's dead is quicke,

3038And now behold the meaning.

3040Kin Is there no exorcist

3041Beguiles the truer Office of mine eyes?

3042Is't reall that I see?

3043Hel No my good Lord,

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