18581765Nor Fortune made such hauocke of my meanes,

18591766Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,

18601767But they shall find awakte in such a kind,

18611768Both strength of limbe, and policy of mind,

18621769Ability in meanes, and choise of friends,

18631770To quit me of them throughly.

18641771Frier Pawse awhile,

18651772And let my counsell sway you in this case,

18661773Your daughter here the princesse (left for dead,)

18671774Let her awhile be secretly kept in,

18681775And publish it, that she is dead indeede,

18691776Maintaine a mourning ostentation,

18701777And on your families old monument,

18711778Hang mourneful epitaphes, and do all rites,

18721779That appertaine vnto a buriall.

18731780Leon. What shall become of this? what will this do?

18741781Frier Mary this well caried, shall on her behalfe,

18751782Change slaunder to remorse, that is some good,

18761783But not for that dreame I on this strange course,

18771784But on this trauaile looke for greater birth:

18781785She dying, as it must be so maintaind,

18791786Vpon the instant that she was accusde,

18801787Shal be lamented, pittied, and excusde

18811788Of euery hearer: for it so falls out,

18821789That what we haue, we prize not to the worth,

18831790Whiles we enioy it, but being lackt and lost,

18841791Why then we racke the valew, then we find

18851792The vertue that possession would not shew vs

18861793Whiles it was ours, so will it fare with Claudio:

18871794When hee shall heare she died vpon his words,

18881795Th Idaea of her life shall sweetly creepe,

18891796Into his study of imagination,

18901797And euery louely Organ of her life,

18911798Shall come apparelld in more precious habite,

18921799More moouing delicate, and full of life,

18931800Into the eie and prospect of his soule

18941801Then when she liude indeed: then shall he mourne,

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