_Bon_. Keepe your teares Lest the full clouds, ambitious that their drops Should mix with yours, unteeme their big wombd laps And rayse a suddeine deluge. Gratious madam, The oftner you reherse her losse the more You intimate the gaine I have acquird By your free bounty, which to me appeares So farr transcending possibility Of satisfaction that, unles you take My selfe for payment, I can nere discharge A debt so waytie. _Lady_. Ist come to this? You speake misteriously; explaine your meaning. _Bon_. To consecrate, with that devotion That holy Hermits immolate[94] theire prayers, My selfe the adorer of your vertues. _Lady_. Are you serious? _Bon_. No scrupulous penitent, timerous that each thought Should be a sinn, does to the priest lay ope With halfe that verity his troubled soule That I doe mine. I love you: in that word Include all ceremony. No sooner had Your information disingagd my heart Of honoring your daughter, but amazd At the immensnesse of the benefit Your goodness had cast on me, I resolvd This way to show my gratitude. _Lady_. But dare you, Knowing the daughter vicious, entertaine Affection to the mother? _Bon_. Dare I when I have bin long opresd with a disease, Wish pleasing health? theres vertue enough here To excite beleife in _Moores_ that only women Have heavenly soules. _Lady_. This is admirable: Did my intention tend to love, as soone I should embrace your motion in that kind As any others, wert but to afford Some small lustracon for the wrong my daughter Intended you; nay, to confesse my thought, I feele a strong propension in my selfe To yeild to you; but I am loath,[95]--your youth Will quickly loath me. _Enter Y[oung] Marlowe and Thurston_. _Mar_. Madam, this Gent[leman] Desires to have you know him for your son: Tis he my sister _Clariana_, with your licence, Wishes for husband. _Lady_. A proper Gent[leman]; Ime happy she has made So iuditious an election.[96] You are very welcome, sir: conduct him in, Sonn. [_Exeunt Young Marlowe and Thurston_. _Bon_. Persuade me I can hate Sleepe after tedious watching, or reiect The wholesome ayre when I've bin long choakd up With sicklie foggs: sooner shall-- _Lady_. Desist from protestations, or employ them Mong those who have no more discretion Then to beleive them. _Bon_. How, Lady? _Lady_. You can in Justice now no more appeach Our mutabillities, since you have provd So manifestly [in]constant. _Bon_. These are arts Orewhelme my dull capacity with horror: Inconstant! _Lady_. Are the light faines erected on the tops Of lofty structures stedfast, which each wind Rules with its motion? credulous man, I thought My daughters reall vertues had inspired thee With so much confidence as not to loose The estimation of her honor for My bare assertion, without questioning The time or any the least circumstance That might confirm't. I did but this to try Your constancy: farewell. [_Exit_.