1606Widdow Nay come,

1607For if they do approach the Citty,

1608We shall loose all the sight.

1609Diana They say, the French Count has done

1610Most honourable seruice.

1611Wid It is reported,

1612That he has taken their great'st Commander,

1613And that with his owne hand he slew

1614The Dukes brother: we haue lost our labour,

1615They are gone a contrarie way: harke,

1616you may know by their Trumpets.

1617Maria Come lets returne againe,

1618And suffice our selues with the report of it.

1619Well Diana take heed of this French Earle,

1620The honor of a Maide is her name,

1621And no Legacie is so rich

1622As honestie.

1623Widdow I haue told my neighbour

1624How you haue beene solicited by a Gentleman

1625His Companion.

1626Maria I know that knaue, hang him, one Parolles

1627a filthy Officer he is in those suggestions for the young

1628Earle, beware of them Diana their promises, entise-

1629ments, oathes, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are

1630not the things they go vnder: many a maide hath beene

1631seduced by them, and the miserie is example, that so

1632terrible shewes in the wracke of maiden-hood, cannot

1633for all that disswade succession, but that they are limed

1634with the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede

1635not to aduise you further, but I hope your owne grace

1636will keepe you where you are, though there were no

1637further danger knowne, but the modestie which is so

1638lost.

1639Dia You shall not neede to feare me.

1641Wid I hope so: looke here comes a pilgrim, I know

1642she will lye at my house, thither they send one another,

1643Ile question her. God saue you pilgrim, whether are

1644bound?

1645Hel To S. Iaques la grand

1646Where do the Palmers lodge, I do beseech you?

1647Wid At the S[aint]. Francisheere beside the Port.

1648Hel Is this the way? A march afarre

1649Wid I marrie ist. Harke you, they come this way:

1650If you will tarrie holy Pilgrime

1651But till the troopes come by,

1652I will conduct you where you shall be lodg'd,

1653The rather for I thinke I know your hostesse

1654As ample as my selfe.

1655Hel Is it your selfe?

1656Wid If you shall please so Pilgrime.

1657Hel I thanke you, and will stay vpon your leisure.

1658Wid You came I thinke from France

1659Hel I did so.

1660Wid Heere you shall see a Countriman of yours

1661That has done worthy seruice.

1662Hel His name I pray you?

1663Dia The Count Rossillion know you such a one?

1664Hel But by the eare that heares most nobly of him:

1665His face I know not.

1666Dia What somere he is

1667He's brauely taken heere. He stole from France

1668As 'tis reported: for the King had married him

1669Against his liking. Thinke you it is so?

1670Hel I surely meere the truth, I know his Lady.

1671Dia There is a Gentleman that serues the Count,

1672Reports but coursely of her.

1673Hel What's his name?

1674Dia Monsieur Parrolles

1675Hel Oh I beleeue with him,

1676In argument of praise, or to the worth

1677Of the great Count himselfe, she is too meane

1678To haue her name repeated, all her deseruing

1679Is a reserued honestie, and that

1680I haue not heard examin'd.

1681Dian Alas poore Ladie,

1682'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife

1683Of a detesting Lord.

1684Wid I write good creature, wheresoere she is,

1685Her hart waighes sadly: this yong maid might do her

1686A shrewd turne if she pleas'd.

1687Hel How do you meane?

1688May be the amorous Count solicites her

1689In the vnlawfull purpose.

1690Wid He does indeede,

1691And brokes with all that can in such a suite

1692Corrupt the tender honour of a Maide:

1693But she is arm'd for him, and keepes her guard

1694In honestest defence.

1697Mar The goddes forbid else.

1698Wid So, now they come:

1699That is Anthoniothe Dukes eldest sonne,

1700That Escalus

1701Hel Which is the Frenchman?

1702Dia Hee,

1703That with the plume, 'tis a most gallant fellow,

1704I would he lou'd his wife: if he were honester

1705He were much goodlier. Is't not a handsom Gentleman

1706Hel I like him well.

1707Di 'Tis pitty he is not honest: yonds that same knaue

1708That leades him to these places: were I his Ladie,

1709I would poison that vile Rascall.

1710Hel Which is he?

1711Dia That Iacke-an-apes with scarfes. Why is hee

1712melancholly?

1713Hel Perchance he's hurt i'th battaile.

1714Par Loose our drum? Well.

1715Mar He's shrewdly vext at something. Looke he

1716has spyed vs.

1717Wid Marrie hang you.

1718Mar And your curtesie, for a ring-carrier.

1719Wid The troope is past: Come pilgrim, I wil bring

1720you, Where you shall host: Of inioyn'd penitents

1721There's foure or fiue, to great S. Iaquesbound,

1722Alreadie at my house.

1723Hel I humbly thanke you:

1724Please it this Matron, and this gentle Maide

1725To eate with vs to night, the charge and thanking

1726Shall be for me, and to requite you further,

1727I will bestow some precepts of this Virgin,

1728Worthy the note.

1729Both Wee'l take your offer kindly. Exeunt