HOG. Go your way to bed then. [_Exit_ REBECCA. I wonder who did at the first invent These beds, the breeders of disease and sloth: He was no soldier, sure, nor no scholar, And yet he might be very well a courtier; For no good husband would have been so idle, No usurer neither: yet here the bed affords [_Discovers his gold._ Store of sweet golden slumbers unto him. Here sleeps command in war; Cæsar by this Obtain'd his triumphs; this will fight man's cause, When fathers, brethren, and the near'st of friends Leave to assist him; all content to this Is merely vain; the lovers, whose affections Do sympathise together in full pleasure, Debarr'd of this, their summer sudden ends; And care, the winter to their former joys, Breathes such a cold blast on their turtles' bills: Having not this, to shroud them[394] forth his storms, They straight are forc'd to make a separation, And so live under those that rule o'er this. The gallant, whose illustrious outside draws The eyes of wantons to behold with wonder His rare-shap'd parts, for so he thinks they be, Deck'd in the robes of glistering gallantry; Having not this attendant on his person, Walks with a cloudy brow, and seems to all A great contemner of society; Not for the hate he bears to company, But for the want of this ability. O silver! thou that art the basest captive Kept in this prison, how many pale offenders For thee have suffer'd ruin? But, O my gold! Thy sight's more pleasing than the seemly locks Of yellow-hair'd Apollo; and thy touch More smooth and dainty than the down-soft white Of lady's tempting breast: thy bright aspect Dims the great'st lustre of heaven's waggoner. But why go I about to extol thy worth, Knowing that poets cannot compass it? But now give place, my gold; for here's a power Of greater glory and supremacy Obscures thy being; here sits enthronis'd The sparkling diamond, whose bright reflection Casts such a splendour on these other gems, 'Mongst which he so majestical appears, As if---- Now my good angels guard me! [_A flash of fire, and_ LIGHTFOOT _ascends like a spirit_.