_Enter_ PISTON. PISTON. O master, see where I am. ERASTUS. Say, Piston, what's the news at Rhodes? PISTON. Cold and comfortless for you: Will you have them all at once? ERASTUS. Ay. PISTON. Why, the governor will hang you, and he catch you: Ferdinando is buried; your friends commend them to you; Perseda hath the chain, and is like to die for sorrow. ERASTUS. Ay, that's the grief, that we are parted thus: Come, follow me, and I will hear the rest; For now I must attend the emperor. [_Exeunt._ _Enter_ PERSEDA, LUCINA, _and_ BASILISCO. PERSEDA. Accursed chain! unfortunate Perseda! LUCINA. Accursed chain! unfortunate Lucina! My friend is gone, and I am desolate. PERSEDA. My friend is gone, and I am desolate:-- Return him back, fair stars, or let me die. LUCINA. Return him back, fair heav'ns, or let me die; For what was he but comfort of my life? PERSEDA. For what was he but comfort of my life? But why was I so careful of the chain? LUCINA. But why was I so careless of the chain? Had I not lost it, my friend had not been slain. PERSEDA. Had I not ask'd it, my friend had not departed; His parting is my death. LUCINA. His death's my life's departing; And here my tongue doth stay with swoll'n heart's-grief. PERSEDA. And here my swoll'n heart's grief doth stay my tongue. BASILISCO. For whom weep you? LUCINA. Ah, for Ferdinando's dying. BASILISCO. For whom mourn you? PERSEDA. Ah, for Erastus' flying. BASILISCO. Why, lady, is not Basilisco here? Why, lady, doth not Basilisco live? Am not I worth both these for whom you mourn? Then take each one half of me, and cease to weep; Or if you gladly would enjoy me both, I'll serve the one by day, the other by night: And I will pay you both your sound delight. LUCINA. Ah, how unpleasant is mirth to melancholy! PERSEDA. My heart is full; I cannot laugh at folly. [_Exeunt Ladies._ BASILISCO.