_Brun._ Sleep shall not seize me, Nor any food befriend me but thy kisses, E're I forsake this desart, I live honest; He may as well bid dead men walk, I humbled, Or bent below my power; let night-dogs tear me, And goblins ride me in my sleep to jelly, Ere I forsake my sphear. _Lecure._ This place you will. _Brun._ What's that to you, or any, Ye doss, you powder'd pigsbones, rubarbe glister: Must you know my designs? a colledge on you, The proverbe makes but fools. _Prota._ But Noble Lady. _Brun._ You a sawcie ass too, off I will not, If you but anger me, till a sow-gelder Have cut you all like colts, hold me and kiss me, For I'm too much troubled; Make up my treasure, And get me horses private, come about it. [_Exeunt._ [_Act. I. Scæ. 2._] _Enter Theodoret, Martell, &c._ _Theod._ Though I assure my self (_Martell_) your counsell Had no end but allegeance and my honor: Yet [I am] jealous, I have pass'd the bounds Of a sons duty; For suppose her worse Than you report, not by bare circumstance, But evident proof confirm'd has given her out: Yet since all weakness[es] in a kingdome, are No more to be severely punished than The faults of Kings are by the Thunderer As oft as they offend, to be reveng'd: If not for piety, yet for policie, Since some are of necessitie to be spar'd, I might, and now I wish I had not look'd With such strict eyes into her follies. _Mart._ Sir, a duty well discharg'd is never follow'd By sad repentance, nor did your Highness ever Make payment of the debt you ow'd her, better Than in your late reproofs not of her, but Those crimes that made her worthy of reproof. The most remarkeable point in which Kings differ From private men, is that they not alone Stand bound to be in themselves innocent, But that all such as are allyed to them In nearness, [or] dependance, by their care Should be free from suspition of all crime; And you have reap'd a double benefit From this last great act: first in the restraint Of her lost pleasures, you remove th' example From others of the like licentiousness, Then when 'tis known that your severitie Extended to your mother, who dares hope for The least indulgence or connivence in The easiest slips that may prove dangerous To you, or to the Kingdome?