537498Bra. God bu'y, I ha done:

538499Please it your Grace, on to the State affaires;

539500I had rather to adopt a child then get it;

540501Come hither Moore:

541502I here doe giue thee that, with all my heart

543503I would keepe from thee: for your sake Iewell,

544504I am glad at soule. I haue no other child,

545505For thy escape would teach me tyranny,

546506To hang clogs on em, I haue done my Lord.

547507Du. Let me speake like your selfe, and lay a sentence

549508Which as a greese or step may helpe these louers

549.1509Into your fauour.

550510When remedies are past, the griefes are ended,

551511By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended,

552512To mourne a mischeife that is past and gone,

553513Is the next way to draw more mischiefe on;

554514What cannot be preseru'd when fortune takes,

555515Patience her iniury a mockery makes.

556516The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the thiefe,

557517He robs himselfe, that spends a bootelesse griefe.

558518Bra. So let the Turke, of Cypres vs beguile,

559519We lose it not so long as we can smile;

560520He beares the sentence well that nothing beares,

561521But the free comfort, which from thence he heares:

562522But he beares both the sentence and the sorrow,

563523That to pay griefe, must of poore patience borrow.

564524These sentences to sugar, or to gall,

565525Being strong on both sides, are equiuocall:

566526But words are words, I neuer yet did heare,

567527That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the eare:

568528Beseech you now, to the affaires of the state.

569529Du. The Turke with most mighty preparation makes for Cipres:

570530Othello, the fortitude of the place, is best knowne to you, and tho we

571531haue there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a so-

573532ueraigne mistresse of effects, throwes a more safer voyce on you; you

574533must therefore bee content to slubber the glosse of your new for-

575534tunes, with this more stubborne and boisterous expedition.