1873Guen. You gentle winds that with your modest blasts,

1874Passe through the circuit of the heavenly vault,

1875Enter the clouds unto the throne of Jove,

1876And bear my prayers to his all-hearing ears,

1877For Locrine hath forsaken Guendoline,

1878And learnt to love proud Humbers concubine.

1879You happy sprites that in the concave skie

1880With pleasant joy, enjoy your sweetest love,

1881Shed forth those tears with me, which then you shed,

1882When first you woo'd your Ladies to your wills:

1883Those tears are fittest for my wofull case,

1884Since Locrine shuns my nothing pleasant face.

1885Blush Heavens, blush Sun, and hide thy shining beams,

1886Shadow thy radiant locks in gloomy clouds,

1887Deny thy cheerfull light unto the world,

1888Where nothing reigns but falshood and deceit.

1889What said I, falshood? I, that filthy crime,

1890For Locrine hath forsaken Guendoline.

1891Behold the heavens do wail for Guendoline:

1892The shining sun doth blush for Guendoline:

1893The liquid air doth weep for Guendoline:

1894The very ground doth groan for Guendoline.

1895I, they are milder then the Britain King,

1896For he rejecteth luckless Guendoline.

1897Thra. Sister, complaints are bootless in this cause,

1898This open wrong must have an open plague:

1899This plague must be repaid with grievous war,

1900This war must finish with Locrinus death,

1901His death will soon extinguish our complaints.

1902Guen. O no, his death will more augment my woes,

1903He was my husband, brave Thrasimacus,

1904More dear to me then the apple of mine eye,

1905Nor can I find in heart to work his scathe.

1906Thra. Madam, if not your proper injuries,

1907Nor my exile, can move you to revenge:

1908Think on our father Corineus words,

1909His words to us stand alwayes for a Law.

1910Should Locrine live that caus'd my fathers death?

1911Should Locrine live that now divorceth you?

1912The heavens, the earth, the air, the fire reclaims;

1913And then why should all we deny the same?

1914Guen. Then henceforth farewell womanish complaints,

1915All childish pitty henceforth then farewell:

1916But cursed Locrine look unto thy self,

1917For Nemesis the mistresse of Revenge,

1918Sits arm'd at all points on our dismal blades,

1919And cursed Estrild that inflam'd his heart,

1920Shall if I live, die a reproachfull death.

1921Madan. Mother, though nature makes me to lament

1922 My luckless fathers froward lechery;

1923Yet for he wrongs my Lady mother, thus,

1924I, if I could, my self would work his death.

1925Thra. See Madam, see, the desire of revenge

1926Is in the children of a tender age.

1927Forward, brave souldiers, into Mertia,