3196that shall goe to Constantinople, and take the Turke by

3197the Beard. Shall wee not? what say'st thou, my faire

3198Flower-de-Luce.

3199Kate. I doe not know dat.

3200King. No: 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise:

3201doe but now promise Kate, you will endeauour for your

3202French part of such a Boy; and for my English moytie,

3203take the Word of a King, and a Batcheler. How answer

3204you, La plus belle Katherine du monde mon trescher & deuin

3205deesse.

3206Kath. Your Maiestee aue fause Frenche enough to

3207deceiue de most sage Damoiseil dat is en Fraunce.

3208King. Now fye vpon my false French: by mine Honor

3209in true English, I loue thee Kate; by which Honor, I dare

3210not sweare thou louest me, yet my blood begins to flat-

3211ter me, that thou doo'st; notwithstanding the poore and

3212vntempering effect of my Visage. Now beshrew my

3213Fathers Ambition, hee was thinking of Ciuill Warres

3214when hee got me, therefore was I created with a stub-

3215borne out-side, with an aspect of Iron, that when I come

3216to wooe Ladyes, I fright them: but in faith Kate, the el-

3217der I wax, the better I shall appeare. My comfort is, that

3218Old Age, that ill layer vp of Beautie, can doe no more

3219spoyle vpon my Face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at

3220the worst; and thou shalt weare me, if thou weare me,

3221better and better: and therefore tell me, most faire Ka-

3222therine, will you haue me? Put off your Maiden Blushes,

3223auouch the Thoughts of your Heart with the Lookes of

3224an Empresse, take me by the Hand, and say, Harry of

3225England, I am thine: which Word thou shalt no sooner

3226blesse mine Eare withall, but I will tell thee alowd, Eng-

3227land is thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Henry

3228Plantaginet is thine; who, though I speake it before his

3229Face, if he be not Fellow with the best King, thou shalt

3230finde the best King of Good-fellowes. Come your An-

3231swer in broken Musick; for thy Voyce is Musick, and

3232thy English broken: Therefore Queene of all, Katherine,

3233breake thy minde to me in broken English; wilt thou

3234haue me?

3235Kath. Dat is as it shall please de Roy mon pere.

3236King. Nay, it will please him well, Kate; it shall please

3237him, Kate.

3238Kath. Den it sall also content me.

3239King. Vpon that I kisse your Hand, and I call you my

3240Queene.

3241Kath. Laisse mon Seigneur, laisse, laisse, may foy: Ie ne

3242veus point que vous abbaisse vostre grandeus, en baisant le

3243main d'une nostre Seigneur indignie seruiteur excuse moy. Ie

3244vous supplie mon tres-puissant Seigneur.

3245King. Then I will kisse your Lippes, Kate.

3246Kath. Les Dames & Damoisels pour estre baisee deuant

3247leur nopcese il net pas le costume de Fraunce.

3248King. Madame, my Interpreter, what sayes shee?

3249Lady. Dat it is not be de fashon pour le Ladies of

3250Fraunce; I cannot tell wat is buisse en Anglish.

3251King. To kisse.

3252Lady. Your Maiestee entendre bettre que moy.

3253King. It is not a fashion for the Maids in Fraunce to

3254kisse before they are marryed, would she say?

3255Lady. Ouy verayment.

3256King. O Kate, nice Customes cursie to great Kings.

3257Deare Kate, you and I cannot bee confin'd within the

3258weake Lyst of a Countreyes fashion: wee are the ma-

3259kers of Manners, Kate; and the libertie that followes

3260our Places, stoppes the mouth of all finde-faults, as I

3261will doe yours, for vpholding the nice fashion of your

3262Countrey, in denying me a Kisse: therefore patiently,

3263and yeelding. You haue Witch-craft in your Lippes,

3264Kate: there is more eloquence in a Sugar touch of

3265them, then in the Tongues of the French Councell; and

3266they should sooner perswade Harry of England, then a

3267generall Petition of Monarchs. Heere comes your

3268Father.

3271Burg. God saue your Maiestie, my Royall Cousin,

3272teach you our Princesse English?

3273King. I would haue her learne, my faire Cousin, how

3274perfectly I loue her, and that is good English.

3275Burg. Is shee not apt?

3276King. Our Tongue is rough, Coze, and my Conditi-

3277on is not smooth: so that hauing neyther the Voyce nor

3278the Heart of Flatterie about me, I cannot so coniure vp

3279the Spirit of Loue in her, that hee will appeare in his true

3280likenesse.

3281Burg. Pardon the franknesse of my mirth, if I answer

3282you for that. If you would coniure in her, you must

3283make a Circle: if coniure vp Loue in her in his true

3284likenesse, hee must appeare naked, and blinde. Can you

3285blame her then, being a Maid, yet ros'd ouer with the

3286Virgin Crimson of Modestie, if shee deny the apparance

3287of a naked blinde Boy in her naked seeing selfe? It were

3288(my Lord) a hard Condition for a Maid to consigne

3289to.

3290King. Yet they doe winke and yeeld, as Loue is blind

3291and enforces.

3292Burg. They are then excus'd, my Lord, when they see

3293not what they doe.

3294King. Then good my Lord, teach your Cousin to

3295consent winking.

3296Burg. I will winke on her to consent, my Lord, if you

3297will teach her to know my meaning: for Maides well

3298Summer'd, and warme kept, are like Flyes at Bartholo-

3299mew-tyde, blinde, though they haue their eyes, and then

3300they will endure handling, which before would not abide

3301looking on.

3302King. This Morall tyes me ouer to Time, and a hot

3303Summer; and so I shall catch the Flye, your Cousin, in

3304the latter end, and she must be blinde to.

3305Burg. As Loue is my Lord, before it loues.

3306King. It is so: and you may, some of you, thanke

3307Loue for my blindnesse, who cannot see many a faire

3308French Citie for one faire French Maid that stands in my

3309way.

3310French King. Yes my Lord, you see them perspec-

3311tiuely: the Cities turn'd into a Maid; for they are

3312all gyrdled with Maiden Walls, that Warre hath en-

3313tred.

3314England. Shall Kate be my Wife?

3315France. So please you.

3316England. I am content, so the Maiden Cities you

3317talke of, may wait on her: so the Maid that stood in

3318the way for my Wish, shall shew me the way to my

3319Will.

3320France. Wee haue consented to all tearmes of rea-

3321son.

3322England. Is't so, my Lords of England?

3323West. The King hath graunted euery Article:

3324His Daughter first; and in sequele, all,

3325According to their firme proposed natures.