_Byan._ Gay clothes, high feeding, easie beds of lust, Change of unseemly sights; with base discourse, Draw curses on your Pallaces; for my part, This I will be confirm'd in, I will eate The bread of labour, know no other rest Than what is earn'd from honest pains, ere once more Lend ear to your vile toyles; Sir, would you were As noble in desires, as I could be in knowing virtue. Pray do not afflict a poor soul thus. _Cesar._ I swear ---- to me?-- [Bianca _steales off_. _Enter a_ Gentleman. _Gent._ The Duke my Lord commands your speedy presence For answering agrievances lately urg'd Against you by your Mother? _Cesar._ By my Mother. _Gent._ The Court is near on sitting. _Cesar._ I wait on it Sir.-- [_Exeunt._ _Enter_ Duke, Magistrate, Secretary, Baptista, Attendants, Mentivole: (_they sit_) Mentivole _stands by_. _Duke._ What waste of blood, what tumults, what divisions, What outrages, what uprores in a State, Factions, though issuing from mean springs at first, Have (not restrain'd) flowed to, the sad example At _Rome_, between the _Ursins_ and _Columni's_: Nay, here at home, in _Florence_, 'twixt the _Neers_ And the _Bianchi_, can too mainly witness. I sit not at the Helm (my Lords) of Sovereignty Deputed Pilot for the Common-wealth, To sleep while others steere (as their wild fancies Shall counsel) by the compass of disorders. _Baptista_, This short Preface is directed Chiefly to you, the petty brawls and quarrels Late urg'd betwixt th' _Alberti_ and your family; Must, yes, and shall, like tender unknit joynts, Fasten again together of themselves: Or like an angry Chyrurgion, we will use The roughness of our justice, to cut off The stubborn rancour of the limbes offending. _Bap._ Most gracious _Florence_. _Duke._ Our command was signified, That neither of the followers of each party Should appear here with weapons. _Bap._ 'Tis obey'd Sir, on my side. _Duke._ We must leave the general cause Of State employments, to give ear to brawls Of some particular grudges, pollitick government For tutor'd Princes, but no more henceforth. _Enter_ Mariana, _and_ Clarissa _at one door_, Cesario _at the other_. Our frown shall check presumption, not our clemency. _Mari._ All blessings due to unpartial Princes, Crown _Florence_ with eternity of happiness. _Cesar._ If double Prayers can double blessings (great Sir) Mine joyn for your prosperity with my Mothers.