_Char._ Be constant in it, And since you are as mercilesse in your natures, As base, and mercenary in your meanes By which you get your wealth, I will not vrge The Court to take away one scruple from 200 The right of their lawes, or one good thought In you to mend your disposition with. I know there is no musique in your eares So pleasing as the groanes of men in prison, And that the teares of widows, and the cries 205 Of famish’d Orphants, are the feasts that take you. That to be in your danger, with more care Should be auoyded, then infectious ayre, The loath’d embraces of diseased women, A flatterers poyson, or the losse of honour. 210 Yet rather then my fathers reuerent dust Shall want a place in that faire monument, In which our noble Ancestors lye intomb’d, Before the Court I offer vp my selfe A prisoner for it: loade me with those yrons 215 That haue worne out his life, in my best strength Ile run to th’ incounter of cold hunger, And choose my dwelling where no Sun dares enter, So he may be releas’d. _1 Cred._ What meane you sir? _2 Aduo._ Onely your fee againe: ther’s so much sayd 220 Already in this cause, and sayd so well, That should I onely offer to speake in it, I should not bee heard, or laught at for it. _1 Cred._ ’Tis the first mony aduocate ere gaue backe, Though hee sayd nothing. _Roch._ Be aduis’d, young Lord, 225 And well considerate, you throw away Your liberty, and ioyes of life together: Your bounty is imployd vpon a subiect That is not sensible of it, with which, wise man Neuer abus’d his goodnesse; the great vertues 230 Of your dead father vindicate themselues, From these mens malice, and breake ope the prison, Though it containe his body. _Nou. Se._ Let him alone, If he loue Lords, a Gods name let him weare ’em, Prouided these consent. _Char._ I hope they are not 235 So ignorant in any way of profit, As to neglect a possibility To get their owne, by seeking it from that Which can returne them nothing, but ill fame, And curses for their barbarous cruelties. 240 _3 Cred._ What thinke you of the offer? _2 Cred._ Very well. _1 Cred._ Accept it by all meanes: let’s shut him vp, He is well-shaped and has a villanous tongue, And should he study that way of reuenge, As I dare almost sweare he loues a wench, 245 We haue no wiues, nor neuer shall get daughters That will hold out against him. _Du Croy._ What’s your answer? _2 Cred._ Speake you for all.