2967Ere they shall make vs weepe?

2968Weele see e'm staru'd first: come. Exit.

2969Bast. Come hither Captaine, hearke.

2970Take thou this note, go follow them to prison,

2971One step I haue aduanc'd thee, if thou do'st

2972As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way

2973To Noble Fortunes: know thou this, that men

2974Are as the time is; to be tender minded

2975Do's not become a Sword, thy great imployment

2976Will not beare question: either say thou'lt do't,

2977Or thriue by other meanes.

2978Capt. Ile do't my Lord.

2979Bast. About it, and write happy, when th'hast done,

2980Marke I say instantly, and carry it so

2981As I haue set it downe. Exit Captaine.

2983Alb. Sir, you haue shew'd to day your valiant straine

2984And Fortune led you well: you haue the Captiues

2985Who were the opposites of this dayes strife:

2986I do require them of you so to vse them,

2987As we shall find their merites, and our safety

2988May equally determine.

2989Bast. Sir, I thought it fit,

2990To send the old and miserable King to some retention,

2991Whose age had Charmes in it, whose Title more,

2992To plucke the common bosome on his side,

2993And turne our imprest Launces in our eies

2994Which do command them. With him I sent the Queen:

2995My reason all the same, and they are ready

2996To morrow, or at further space, t' appeare

2997Where you shall hold your Session.

2998Alb. Sir, by your patience,

2999I hold you but a subiect of this Warre,

3000Not as a Brother.

3001Reg. That's as we list to grace him.

3002Methinkes our pleasure might haue bin demanded

3003Ere you had spoke so farre. He led our Powers,

3004Bore the Commission of my place and person,

3005The which immediacie may well stand vp,

3006And call it selfe your Brother.

3007Gon. Not so hot:

3008In his owne grace he doth exalt himselfe,

3009More then in your addition.

3010Reg. In my rights,

3011By me inuested, he compeeres the best.

3012Alb. That were the most, if he should husband you.

3013Reg. Iesters do oft proue Prophets.

3014Gon. Hola, hola,

3015That eye that told you so, look'd but a squint.

3016Rega. Lady I am not well, else I should answere

3017From a full flowing stomack. Generall,

3018Take thou my Souldiers, prisoners, patrimony,

3019Dispose of them, of me, the walls is thine:

3020Witnesse the world, that I create thee heere

3021My Lord, and Master.

3022Gon. Meane you to enioy him?

3023Alb. The let alone lies not in your good will.

3024Bast. Nor in thine Lord.

3025Alb. Halfe-blooded fellow, yes.

3026Reg. Let the Drum strike, and proue my title thine.

3027Alb. Stay yet, heare reason: Edmund, I arrest thee

3028On capitall Treason; and in thy arrest,

3029This guilded Serpent: for your claime faire Sisters,

3030I bare it in the interest of my wife,

3031'Tis she is sub-contracted to this Lord,

3032And I her husband contradict your Banes.

3033If you will marry, make your loues to me,

3034My Lady is bespoke.

3035Gon. An enterlude.

3036Alb. Thou art armed Gloster,

3037Let the Trmpet sound:

3038If none appeare to proue vpon thy person,

3039Thy heynous, manifest, and many Treasons,

3040There is my pledge: Ile make it on thy heart

3041Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing lesse

3042Then I haue heere proclaim'd thee.

3043Reg. Sicke, O sicke.

3044Gon. If not, Ile nere trust medicine.

3045Bast. There's my exchange, what in the world hes

3046That names me Traitor, villain-like he lies,

3047Call by the Trumpet: he that dares approach;

3048On him, on you, who not, I will maintaine

3049My truth and honor firmely.

3051Alb. A Herald, ho.

3052Trust to thy single vertue, for thy Souldiers

3053All leuied in my name, haue in my name

3054Tooke their discharge.

3055Regan. My sicknesse growes vpon me.

3056Alb. She is not well, conuey her to my Tent.

3057Come hither Herald, let the Trumper sound,

3058And read out this. A Tumpet sounds.

3060 If any man of qualitie or degree, within the lists of the Ar-

3061my, will maintaine vpon Edmund, supposed Earle of Gloster,

3062that he is a manifold Traitor, let him appeare by the third

3063sound of the Trumpet: he is bold in his defence. 1 Trumpet.

3064Her. Againe. 2 Trumpet.

3065Her. Againe. 3 Trumpet.

3068Alb. Aske him his purposes, why he appeares

3069Vpon this Call o'th'Trumpet.

3070Her. What are you?

3071Your name, your quality, and why you answer

3072This present Summons?

3073Edg. Know my name is lost

3074By Treasons tooth: bare-gnawne, and Canker-bit,

3075Yet am I Noble as the Aduersary

3076I come to cope.

3077Alb. Which is that Aduersary?

3078Edg. What's he that speakes for Edmund Earle of Glo- (ster?

3079Bast. Himselfe, what saist thou to him?

3080Edg. Draw thy Sword,

3081That if my speech offend a Noble heart,

3082Thy arme may do thee Iustice, heere is mine:

3083Behold it is my priuiledge,

3084The priuiledge of mine Honours,

3085My oath, and my profession. I protest,

3086Maugre thy strength, place, youth, and eminence,

3087Despise thy victor-Sword, and fire new Fortune,

3088Thy valor, and thy heart, thou art a Traitor:

3089False to thy Gods, thy Brother, and thy Father,

3090Conspirant 'gainst this high illustirous Prince,

3091And from th'extremest vpward of thy head,

3092To the discent and dust below thy foote,