+Duke.+ Hast thou not air enough, my panting soul? O, what a stitch is coming! [_Expirat._ +King.+ Wou'd thou had'st better lov'd thyself and us: For while thou priz'd the honour of that blood, We priz'd thee with it. O ambition! The grandame of all sin, that strikes at stars With an undaunted brow, whilst thus thy feet Slide to the nether hell! Like some vast stream, That takes into its womb all springs that neighbour by it, And would proudly carry all their currents in its own: Swells o'er its banks, and wantons like a tyrant. Take hence the sight: it stirs our indignation. [_Exeunt cum corporibus._ +Omnes.+ Long live the great and good King of Castile! +King.+ We thank ye, and just heaven which hath (unto wonder) Unknotted all these mischiefs, and kept us safe: And because we do not love to use the laws In their extremity, or execute with blood, Where we can moderate without; but chiefly, Dessandro, to endear ye more to heaven In your acknowledgment, we do enjoin you To some religious house of Orders, there By an humble life to expiate your guilt. +Des.+ Upon my knees I do acknowledge Your God-like mercy. +King.+ De Castro Our thanks shall make your loyalty Exemplary to all times: nor wish we to live longer Than to gain the faith of all; that we may find Ourself and title most secure, and greatest In your loves; which gives us more Than giddy fortune can---- +This is our fate, and to the wise is known; All goods without us are, not (sure) our own.+ In tenui labor est; at tenuis non gloria. THE ADVENTURES OF FIVE HOURS. _EDITIONS._ _The Adventures of Five Hours. A Tragi-Comedy._--Non ego Ventosæ Plebis suffragia venor. _Horat. Fʳ. 21º, 1662. Imprimatur, John Birkenhead. London. Printed for Henry Herringman, at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1663. fol.[29]_ _The Adventures of Five Houres: a Tragi-Comedy. As it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre. The third impression. Revised and corrected by the author, Sir Samuel Tuke, Kt. and Bart._ Nonumque prematur in Annum. _Horat. de Art Poet. London: Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Blew Anchor, on the Lower Walk of the New Exchange._ 1671. 4º.[30] FOOTNOTES: [29] The title of the copy of 1664 is precisely the same as that of the first edition. It is in 4to. [30] There was a fourth impression in 1704. PREFACE.