1744Per.Oh, happy sight! he meanes to saue my Lord.

1745The King of heauen continue this good mind.

1746Leir. Why stayst thou to do execution?

1747Mes. I am as wilfull as you for your life:

1748I will not do it, now you do intreat me.

1749Per. Ah, now I see thou hast some sparke of grace.

1750Mes. Beshrew you for it, you haue put it in me:

1751The parlosest old men, that ere I heard.

1752Well, to be flat, ile not meddle with you:

1753Here I found you, and here ile leaue you:

1754If any aske you why the case so stands?

1755Say that your toungs were better then your hands. Exit.Mess.

1756Per. Farewell. If euer we together meet,

1757It shall go hard, but I will thee regreet.

1758Courage, my Lord, the worst is ouerpast;

1759Let vs giue thanks to God, and hye vs hence.

1760Leir. Thou art deceyued; for I am past the best,

1761And know not whither for to go from hence:

1762Death had bin better welcome vnto me,

1763Then longer life to adde more misery.

1764Per. It were not good to returne from whence we(came,

1765Vnto your daughter Ragan back againe.

1766Now let vs go to France, vnto Cordella,

1767Your youngest daughter, doubtlesse she will succour you.

1768Leir. Oh, how can I perswade my selfe of that,

1769Since the other two are quite deuoyd of loue;

1770To whom I was so kind, as that my gifts,

1771Might make them loue me, if 'twere nothing else?

1772Per. No worldly gifts, but grace from God on hye,

1773Doth nourish vertue and true charity.

1774Remember well what words Cordella spake,

1775What time you askt her, how she lou'd your Grace.

1776Se sayd, her loue vnto you was as much,

1777As ought a child to beare vnto her father.

1778Leir. But she did find, my loue was not to her,

1779As should a father beare vnto a child.

1780Per. That makes not her loue to be any lesse,

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