_Cler._ If there were love in mariage, so I would; But I denie that any man doth love, 170 Affecting wives, maides, widowes, any women: For neither flyes love milke, although they drowne In greedy search thereof; nor doth the bee Love honey, though the labour of her life Is spent in gathering it; nor those that fat 175 On beasts, or fowles, doe any thing therein For any love: for as when onely nature Moves men to meate, as farre as her power rules, Shee doth it with a temperate appetite, The too much men devoure abhorring nature, 180 And in our most health is our most disease: So, when humanitie rules men and women, Tis for societie confinde in reason. But what excites the beds desire in bloud, By no meanes justly can be construed love; 185 For when love kindles any knowing spirit, It ends in vertue and effects divine, And is in friendship chaste and masculine. _Gui._ Thou shalt my mistresse be; me thinkes my bloud Is taken up to all love with thy vertues. 190 And howsoever other men despise These paradoxes strange and too precise, Since they hold on the right way of our reason, I could attend them ever. Come, away; Performe thy brothers thus importun'd wreake; 195 And I will see what great affaires the King Hath to employ my counsell which he seemes Much to desire, and more and more esteemes. _Exeunt._ LINENOTES: 53 _doth oft like_. Emended by ed.; Q, doth of like. 58 _Lorraine_. Emended by ed.; Q, Soccaine; see note on 55-61. 90 Repunctuated by ed.; Q has (;) at the end of the line. 141 _All . . . renowne_. Q, All the desert of good, renowne your Highnesse. 176 _On_. Shepherd, Phelps; Q, Or. [SCÆNA SECUNDA. _A Room at the Court._] _Enter Henry, Baligny, with sixe of the guard._ _Henry._ Saw you his sawcie forcing of my hand To D'Ambois freedome? _Baligny._ Saw, and through mine eyes Let fire into my heart, that burn'd to beare An insolence so giantly austere. _Hen._ The more Kings beare at subjects hands, the more 5 Their lingring justice gathers; that resembles The waightie and the goodly-bodied eagle, Who (being on earth) before her shady wings Can raise her into ayre, a mightie way Close by the ground she runnes; but being aloft, 10 All shee commands, she flyes at; and the more Death in her seres beares, the more time shee stayes Her thundry stoope from that on which shee preyes.