_Orl._ The dedication of thy love to me requires my ample bounty, thou art mine, for I do find thee made unto my purposes: Mounsieur _Laverdine_, pardon my neglect I not observed you, and how runs rumour? _Lav._ Why, it runs my Lord like a foot-man without a cloak, to show that what's once rumour'd it cannot be hid. _Or[l]._ And what say the rable, am not I the subject of their talk? _Lav._ Troth my Lord the common mouth speaks foul words. _Orl._ Of me, for turning away my wife, do they not? _Lav._ Faith the men do a little murmure at it and say, 'tis an ill president in so great a man, marry the women they rayl out right. _Orl._ Out upon them rampallions. I'll keep my self safe enough out of their fingers, but what say my pritty jolly composed gallants that censure every thing more desperate than it is dangerous; what say they? _Lav._ Marry they are laying wagers, what death you shall die; one offers to lay five hundred pounds; And yet he had but a groat about him, & that was in two twopences too to any man that wou'd make it up a shilling; that you were kil'd with a Pistoll charg'd with white Powder; another offerd to pawn his soul for five shillings, and yet no body wou'd take him, that you were stab'd to death, and shou'd die with more wounds than _Cæsar_. _Orl._ And who shou'd be the Butchers that shou'd do it? _Montague_ and his associates? _Lav._ So 'tis conjectured. _La-p._ And believe it, sweet Prince, it is to be feared, and therefore prevented. _Orl._ By turning his purpose on himself, were not that the way? _Lav._ The most direct path for your safety. For where doth danger sit more furious than in a desperate man? _La-p._ And being you have declined his means, you have increast his malice. _Lav._ Besides the generall report that steems in every mans breath, and stains you all over with infamy, that Time the devourer of all things cannot eat out. _La-p._ I, for that former familiarity, which he had with your Lady. _Lav._ Men speak it as boldly as words of compliment; good morrow, good even, or [God] save you Sir, are not more usuall; if the word cuckold had been written upon your forehead in great Capitall Letters, it could not have been dilated with more confidence. _Orl._ He shall not sleep another night, I will have his blood, though it be required at my hands again. _Lav._ Your Lordship may, and without hazarding your own person; here's a Gentleman in whose looks I see a resolution to perform it. _Dub._ Let his Lordship give me but his honorable word for my life, I'll kill him as he walks. _Lav._ Or pistoll him as he sits at meat. _La-p._ Or at game. _Lav._ Or as he is drinking. _Dub._ Any way.