Kings and rulers -- Drama; Political plays; Tragicomedy
My Lord your authoritie is good, and I am glad it is so, for my
consent would never hinder you from seeing your owne King. I am a
Minister, but not a governour of this state; yonder is your King,
Ile leave you.
_Exit_.
_Lig_.
There he is indeed, _Enter Tig. and Spaco_.
And with him my disloyall childe.
_Tig_.
I doe perceive my fault so much, that yet
Me thinkes thou shouldst not have forgiven me.
_Lig_.
Health to your Maiestie.
_Tig_.
What? good Ligones, welcome; what businesse brought thee hether?
_Lig_.
Severall Businesses.
My publique businesse will appeare by this:
I have a message to deliver, which
If it please you so to authorise, is
An embassage from the Armenian state,
Unto _Arbaces_ for your libertie:
The offer's there set downe, please you to read it.
_Tig_.
There is no alteration happened
Since I came thence?
_Lig_.
None Sir, all is as it was.
_Tig_.
And all our friends are well.
_Lig_.
All verie well.
_Spa_.
Though I have done nothing but what was good,
I dare not see my Father: it was fault
Enough not to acquaint him with that good.
_Lig_.
Madam I should have scene you.
_Spa_.
O good Sir forgive me.
_Lig_.
Forgive you, why I am no kin to you, am I?
_Spa_.
Should it be measur'd by my meane deserts,
Indeed you are not.
_Lig_.
Thou couldst prate unhappily
Ere thou couldst goe, would thou couldst doe as well.
And how does your custome hold out here. _Spa_. Sir.
_Lig_.
Are you in private still, or how?
_Spa_.
What doe you meane?
_Lig_.
Doe you take money? are you come to sell sinne yet? perhaps I can
helpe you to liberall Clients: or has not the King cast you off yet? O
thou wild creature, whose best commendation is, that thou art a young
Whore. I would thy Mother had liv'd to see this: or rather would I had
dyed ere I had seene it: why did'st not make me acquainted when thou
wert first resolv'd to be a Whore? I would have seene thy hot lust
satisfied more privately. I would have kept a dancer, and a whole
consort of Musitions in mine owne house, onely to fiddle thee. _Spa_.
Sir I was never whore.
_Lig_.
If thou couldst not say so much for thy selfe thou shouldst be
Carted.
_Tig._
_Ligones_ I have read it, and like it,
You shall deliver it.
_Lig_.
Well Sir I will: but I have private busines with you.
_Tig_.
Speake, what ist?
_Lig_.
How has my age deserv'd so ill of you,
That you can picke no strumpets in the Land,
But out of my breed.
_Tig_.
Strumpets good _Ligones_?
_Lig_.
Yes, and I wish to have you know, I scorne
To get a Whore for any Prince alive,
And yet scorne will not helpe me thinkes: My daughter
Might have beene spar'd, there were enough beside.
_Tig_.
May I not prosper, but Shee's innocent
As morning light for me, and I dare sweare
For all the world.
_Lig_.
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