2658meane you? you will lose your reputation.

2659Brag. Gentlemen and Souldiers pardon me, I will

2660not combat in my shirt.

2661Du. You may not denie it, Pompey hath made the

2662challenge.

2663Brag. Sweet bloods, I both may, and will.

2664Ber. What reason haue you for't?

2665Brag. The naked truth of it is, I haue no shirt,

2666I go woolward for penance.

2667Boy. True, and it was inioyned him in Rome for want

2668of Linnen: since when, Ile be sworne he wore none, but

2669a dishclout of Iaquenettas, and that hee weares next his

2670heart for a fauour.

2672Mar. God saue you Madame.

2673Qu. Welcome Marcade, but that thou interruptest

2674our merriment.

2675Marc. I am sorrie Madam, for the newes I bring is

2676heauie in my tongue. The King your father

2677Qu. Dead for my life.

2678Mar. Euen so: My tale is told.

2679Ber. Worthies away, the Scene begins to cloud.

2680Brag. For mine owne part, I breath free breath: I

2681haue seene the day of wrong, through the little hole of

2682discretion, and I will right my selfe like a Souldier.

2684Kin. How fare's your Maiestie?

2685Qu. Boyet prepare, I will away to night.

2686Kin. Madame not so, I do beseech you stay.

2687Qu. Prepare I say. I thanke you gracious Lords

2688For all your faire endeuours and entreats:

2689Out of a new sad-soule, that you vouchsafe,

2690In your rich wisedome to excuse, or hide,

2691The liberall opposition of our spirits,

2692If ouer-boldly we haue borne our selues,

2693In the conuerse of breath (your gentlenesse

2694Was guiltie of it.) Farewell worthie Lord:

2695A heauie heart beares not a humble tongue.

2696Excuse me so, comming so short of thankes,

2697For my great suite, so easily obtain'd.

2698Kin. The extreme parts of time, extremelie formes

2699All causes to the purpose of his speed:

2700And often at his verie loose decides

2701That, which long processe could not arbitrate.

2702And though the mourning brow of progenie

2703Forbid the smiling curtesie of Loue:

2704The holy suite which faine it would conuince,

2705Yet since loues argument was first on foote,

2706Let not the cloud of sorrow iustle it

2707From what it purpos'd: since to waile friends lost,

2708Is not by much so wholsome profitable,

2709As to reioyce at friends but newly found.

2710Qu. I vnderstand you not, my greefes are double.

2711Ber. Honest plain words, best pierce the ears of griefe

2712And by these badges vnderstand the King,

2713For your faire sakes haue we neglected time,

2714Plaid foule play with our oaths: your beautie Ladies

2715Hath much deformed vs, fashioning our humors

2716Euen to the opposed end of our intents.

2717And what in vs hath seem'd ridiculous:

2718As Loue is full of vnbefitting straines,

2719All wanton as a childe, skipping and vaine.

2720Form'd by the eie, and therefore like the eie.

2721Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of formes

2722Varying in subiects as the eie doth roule,

2723To euerie varied obiect in his glance:

2724Which partie-coated presence of loose loue

2725Put on by vs, if in your heauenly eies,

2726Haue misbecom'd our oathes and grauities.

2727Those heauenlie eies that looke into these faults,

2728Suggested vs to make: therefore Ladies

2729Our loue being yours, the error that Loue makes

2730Is likewise yonrs. We to our selues proue false,

2731By being once false, for euer to be true

2732To those that make vs both, faire Ladies you.

2733And euen that falshood in it selfe a sinne,

2734Thus purifies it selfe, and turnes to grace.

2735Qu. We haue receiu'd your Letters, full of Loue:

2736Your Fauours, the Ambassadors of Loue.

2737And in our maiden counsaile rated them,

2738At courtship, pleasant iest, and curtesie,

2739As bumbast and as lining to the time:

2740But more deuout then these are our respects

2741Haue we not bene, and therefore met your loues

2742In their owne fashion, like a merriment.

2743Du. Our letters Madam, shew'd much more then iest.

2744Lon. So did our lookes.

2745Rosa. We did not coat them so.

2746Kin. Now at the latest minute of the houre,

2747Grant vs your loues.

2748Qu. A time me thinkes too short,

2749To make a world-without-end bargaine in;

2750No, no my Lord, your Grace is periur'd much,

2751Full of deare guiltinesse, and therefore this:

2752If for my Loue (as there is no such cause)

2753You will do ought, this shall you do for me.

2754Your oth I will not trust: but go with speed

2755To some forlorne and naked Hermitage,

2756Remote from all the pleasures of the world:

2757There stay, vntill the twelue Celestiall Signes

2758Haue brought about their annuall reckoning.

2759If this austere insociable life,

2760Change not your offer made in heate of blood:

2761If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds

2762Nip not the gaudie blossomes of your Loue,

2763But that it beare this triall, and last loue:

2764Then at the expiration of the yeare,

2765Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,

2766And by this Virgin palme, now kissing thine,

2767I will be thine: and till that instant shut

2768My wofull selfe vp in a mourning house,

2769Raining the teares of lamentation,

2770For the remembrance of my Fathers death.

2771If this thou do denie, let our hands part,

2772Neither intitled in the others hart.

2773Kin. If this, or more then this, I would denie,

2774To flatter vp these powers of mine with rest,

2775The sodaine hand of death close vp mine eie.

2776Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest.

2777Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me?

2778Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd.

2779You are attaint with faults and periurie:

2780Therefore if you my fauor meane to get,

2781A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest,

2782But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke.

2783Du. But what to me my loue? but what to me?

2784Kat. A wife? a beard, faire health, and honestie,

2785With three-fold loue, I wish you all these three.

2786Du. O shall I say, I thanke you gentle wife?

2787Kat. Not so my Lord, a tweluemonth and a day,

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