_Lecure._ A resolution falling with most ease, Of any doubt you could have nam'd, he is a Prince Whose fortune you enquire. _Thie._ He is nobly born. _Lecure._ He had a Dukedom lately fall'n unto him, By one, call'd Brother, who has left a Daughter. _Thier._ The question is, of Heirs, not Lands. _Lecure._ Heirs, yes, he shall have Heirs. _Thier._ Begotten of his body, why look'st thou pale? Thou canst not suffer in his want. _Lecure._ Nor thou, I neither can nor will Give farther knowledge to thee. _Thier._ Thou must, I am the man my self, Thy Sovereign, who must owe unto thy wisdom In the concealing of my barren shame. _Lecure._ Your Grace doth wrong your Stars; if this be yours, You may have children. _Thier._ Speak it again. _Lecure._ You may have fruitful issue. _Thier._ By whom? when? how? _Lecure._ It was the fatal means first struck my bloud With the cold hand of wonder, when I read it Printed upon your birth. _Thier._ Can there be any way unsmooth, has end So fair and good? _Lecure._ We that behold the sad aspects of Heaven, Leading sence blinded, men feel grief enough To know, though not to speak their miseries. _Thier._ Sorrow must lose a name, where mine finds life; If not in thee, at least ease pain with speed, Which must know no cure else. _Lecure._ Then thus, The first of Females which your eye shall meet Before the Sun next rise, coming from out The Temple of _Diana_ being slain, you live Father of many sons. _Thier._ Call'st thou this sadness, can I beget a Son? Deserving less than to give recompence Unto so poor a loss? what e'er thou art, Rest peaceable blest creature, born to be Mother of Princes, whose grave shall be more fruitful Than others marriage beds: methinks his Art Should give her form and happy figure to me, I long to see my happiness, he is gone, As I remember, he nam'd my brothers Daughter, Were it my Mother, 'twere a gainful death Could give _Ordella_'s virtue living breath. [_Exeunt._ _Actus Quartus. Scæna Prima._ _Enter_ Thierry _and_ Martel. _Mart._ Your Grace is early stirring.