BY heauen, that thou art faire, is most infallible:

1041983true that thou art beautious, trueth it selfe that

1042984thou art louelie: more fairer then faire, beautifull then beau-

1043985tious, truer then trueth it selfe: haue comiseration on thy

1044986heroicall Vassall. The magnanimous and most illustrate

1045987King Cophetua set eie vpon the pernicious and indubitate

1046988Begger Zenelophon: and he it was that might rightly say,

1047989Veni, vidi, vici: Which to annothanize in the vulgar, O base

1049990and obscure vulgar; videliset, He came, See, and ouercame:

1050991He came, one; see, two; couercame, three. Who came? the

1051992King. Why did he come? to see. Why did he see? to ouer-

1052993come. To whom came he? to the Begger. What saw he? the

1053994Begger. Who ouercame he? the Begger. The conclusion is

1054995victorie: On whose side? the King: the captiue is inricht, on

1055996whose side? the Beggers. The catastrophe is a Nuptiall, on

1056997whose side? the Kinges: no, on both in one, or one in both.

1057998I am the King (for so standes the comparison) thou the Beg-

1059999ger, for so witnesseth thy lowlines. Shall I commande thy

10601000loue? I may. Shall I enforce thy loue? I coulde. Shall I en-

10611001treate thy loue? I will. What, shalt thou exchange for raggs

10621002roabes, for tittles tytles, for thy selfe, mee. Thus expecting

10631003thy replie, I prophane my lippes on thy foote, my eyes on

10641004thy picture, and my hart on thy euerie part.