_Ren._ Sir, your intent, And action too, was rude to enter thus. 125 _Bal._ Y'are a decaid lord to tell me of rudenesse, As much decaid in manners as in meanes. _Ren._ You talke of manners, that thus rudely thrust Upon a man that's busie with his wife! _Bal._ And kept your lordship then the dore? _Ren._ The dore! 130 _Mont._ Sweet lord, forbeare. Show, show your purpose, sir, To move such bold feete into others roofes. _Bal._ This is my purpose, sir; from Clermont D'Ambois I bring this challenge. _Mont._ Challenge! Ile touch none. _Bal._ Ile leave it here then. _Ren._ Thou shall leave thy life first. 135 _Mont._ Murther, murther! _Ren._ Retire, my lord; get off. _They all fight and Bal[igny] drives in Mont[surry]._ Hold, or thy death shall hold thee. Hence, my lord! _Bal._ There lye the chalenge. _Exit Mon[tsurry]._ _Ren._ Was not this well handled? _Bal._ Nobly, my lord. All thankes. _Exit Bal[igny]._ _Tamy._ Ile make him reade it. _Exit Tamy[ra]._ _Ren._ This was a sleight well maskt. O what is man, 140 Unlesse he be a politician! _Exit._ _Finis Actus primi._ LINENOTES: 4 _honours_. Emended by Phelps; Q, humors. _Enter Montsurry._ Emended by all editors; Q, Monsieur. 28 _dry_. Emended by all editors; Q, dye. 52 _affections_. Q, affectons. 62 _Mont._ Emended here, and in the stage-directions to the end of the Scene, by Shepherd, Phelps; Q, _Mons._ 100 _it is_. Ed.; Q, tis. 115-16. Broken in Q at _lordship_, _here_, _I_. 123 _Y'are_. Emended by Shepherd, Phelps; Q, Ye'are. 134-36. Broken in Q at first _challenge_, _then_, _murther_, _get off_. ACTUS SECUNDI SCÆNA PRIMA. [_A Room at the Court._] _Henry, Baligny._ _Henry._ Come, Baligny, we now are private; say, What service bring'st thou? make it short; the Guise (Whose friend thou seem'st) is now in Court, and neare, And may observe us.