637Iailor. I may depart with little, while I live, some thing I

638May cast to you, not much: Alas the Prison I

639Keepe, though it be for great ones, yet they seldome

640Come; Before one Salmon, you shall take a number

641Of Minnowes: I am given out to be better lyn'd

642Then it can appeare, to me report is a true

643Speaker: I would I were really, that I am

644Deliverd to be: Marry, what I have (be it what

645it will) I will assure upon my daughter at

646The day of my death.

647Wooer. Sir I demaund no more then your owne offer,

648And I will estate your Daughter in what I

649Have promised,

D Iailor.

650Iailor. Wel, we will talke more of this, when the solemnity

651Is past; But have you a full promise of her?

653When that shall be seene, I tender my consent.

654Wooer. I have Sir; here shee comes.

655Iailor. Your Friend and I have chanced to name

656You here, upon the old busines: But no more of that.

657Now, so soone as the Court hurry is over, we will

658Have an end of it: I'th meane time looke tenderly

659To the two Prisoners. I can tell you they are princes.

660Daug. These strewings are for their Chamber; tis pitty they

661Are in prison, and twer pitty they should be out: I

662Doe thinke they have patience to make any adversity

663Asham'd; the prison it selfe is proud of 'em; and

664They have all the world in their Chamber.

665Iailor. They are fam'd to be a paire of absolute men.

666Daugh. By my troth, I think Fame but stammers 'em, they

667Stand a greise above the reach of report.

668Iai. I heard them reported in the Battaile, to be the only(doers.

669Daugh. Nay most likely, for they are noble suffrers; I

670Mervaile how they would have lookd had they beene

671Victors, that with such a constant Nobility, enforce

672A freedome out of Bondage, making misery their

673Mirth, and affliction, a toy to jest at.

674Iailor. Doe they so?

675Daug. It seemes to me they have no more sence of their

676Captivity, then I of ruling Athens: they eate

677Well, looke merrily, discourse of many things,

678But nothing of their owne restraint, and disasters:

679Yet sometime a devided sigh, martyrd as twer

680I'th deliverance, will breake from one of them.

681When the other presently gives it so sweete a rebuke,

682That I could wish my selfe a Sigh to be so chid,

683Or at least a Sigher to be comforted.

684Wooer. I never saw'em.

685Iailor. The Duke himselfe came privately in the night,

687And so did they, what the reason of it is, I

688Know not: Looke yonder they are; that's

689Arcite lookes out.

690Daugh. No Sir, no, that's Palamon: Arcite is the

691Lower of the twaine; you may perceive a part

692Of him.

693Iai. Goe too, leave your pointing; they would not

694Make us their object; out of their sight.

695Daugh. It is a holliday to looke on them: Lord, the

696Diffrence of men. Exeunt,