_Euph._ Oh Heaven, my Brother bleeds: _Conon_, thou art A villain, an unthankful man, and shalt Pay me thy bloud for his, for his is mine: Thou wert my friend, but he is still my Brother; And though a friend sometimes be nearer said In some gradation it can never be Where that same Brother can be made a friend, Which dearest _Crates_ thus low I implore; What in my poverty I would not seek, Because I would not burthen you, now here In all my height of bliss I beg of you, Your friendship; my advancement, Sir, is yours; I never held it strange, pray use it so: We are but two, which Number Nature fram'd In the most useful faculties of man, To strengthen mutually and relieve each other: Two eyes, two ears, two arms, two legs and feet, That where one faild, the other might supply; And I, your other eye, ear, your arm and leg, Tender my service, help and succor to ye. _Ag. Leo._ A most divine example. _Euph._ For dear Brother, You have been blind, and lame, and deaf to me, Now be no more so: in humility I give ye the duty of a younger Brother, Which take you as a Brother, not a Father, And then you'll pay a duty back to me. _Cra._ Till now I have not wept these thirty years. _Euph._ Discording Brothers, are like mutual legs Supplanting one another: he that seeks Aid from a stranger and forsakes his Brother, Does but like him that madly lops his arm, And to his body joyns a wooden one: Cuts off his natural leg, and trusts a Crutch, Plucks out his eye to see with Spectacles. _Cra._ Most dear _Euphanes_, in this crimson floud Wash my unkindness out: you have o'rcome me, Taught me humanity and brotherhood; Full well knew Nature thou wert fitter far To be a Ruler o'r me than a Brother, Which henceforth be: _Jove_ surely did descend When thou wert gotten in some heavenly shape And greet my Mother, as the poets tell Of other Women. _Ag._ Be this Holy-day. _Leo._ And noted ever with the whitest stone. _Co._ And pardon me my Lord, look you, I bleed Faster than _Crates_; what I have done I did To reconcile your loves, to both a friend, Which my blood ciment, never to part or end. _Ag._ Most worthy _Conon_. _Leo._ Happy rise, this day Contracts more good than a whole age hath done. _Euph._ Royal _Agenor_, brave _Leonidas_, You are main causes, and must share the fame. _Cra._ Which in some part this hour shall requite For I have aim'd my black shafts at white marks, And now I'll put the clew into your hands Shall guide ye most perspicuously to the depth Of this dark Labyrinth, where so long ye were lost Touching this old Rape, and a new intent. Wherein your counsel, and your active wit My dearest Brother will be necessary.