_Char._ What! Away for shame: you prophane rogues
Must not be mingled with these holy reliques:
This is a Sacrifice, our showre shall crowne 90
His sepulcher with Oliue, Myrrh and Bayes
The plants of peace, of sorrow, victorie,
Your teares would spring but weedes.
_1 Cred._ Would they not so?
Wee’ll keepe them to stop bottles then:
_Rom._ No; keepe ’em
For your owne sins, you Rogues, till you repent: 95
You’ll dye else and be damn’d.
_2 Cred._ Damn’d, ha! ha, ha.
_Rom._ Laugh yee?
_3 Cred._ Yes faith, Sir, weel’d be very glad
To please you eyther way.
_1 Cred._ Y’are ne’re content,
Crying nor laughing.
_Rom._ Both with a birth shee rogues.
_2 Cred._ Our wiues, Sir, taught vs. 100
_Rom._ Looke, looke, you slaues, your thanklesse cruelty
And sauage manners, of vnkind _Dijon_,
Exhaust these flouds, and not his fathers death.
_1 Cred._ Slid, Sir, what would yee, ye’are so cholericke?
_2 Cred._ Most soldiers are so yfaith, let him alone: 105
They haue little else to liue on, we haue not had
A penny of him, haue we?
_3 Cred._ ’Slight, wo’d you haue our hearts?
_1 Cred._ We haue nothing but his body heere in durance
For all our mony.
_Priest._ On.
_Char._ One moment more,
But to bestow a few poore legacyes, 110
All I haue left in my dead fathers rights,
And I haue done. Captaine, weare thou these spurs
That yet ne’re made his horse runne from a foe.
Lieutenant, thou, this Scarfe, and may it tye
Thy valor, and thy honestie together: 115
For so it did in him. Ensigne, this Curace
Your Generalls necklace once. You gentle Bearers,
Deuide this purse of gold, this other, strow
Among the poore: tis all I haue. _Romont_,
(Weare thou this medall of himselfe) that like 120
A hearty Oake, grew’st close to this tall Pine,
Euen in the wildest wildernese of war,
Whereon foes broke their swords, and tyr’d themselues;
Wounded and hack’d yee were, but neuer fell’d.
For me my portion prouide in Heauen: 125
My roote is earth’d, and I a desolate branch
Left scattered in the high way of the world,
Trod vnder foot, that might haue bin a Columne,
Mainly supporting our demolish’d house,
This would I weare as my inheritance. 130
And what hope can arise to me from it,
When I and it are both heere prisoners?
Onely may this, if euer we be free,
Keepe, or redeeme me from all infamie.
_Song. Musicke._
_1 Cred._ No farther, looke to ’em at your owne perill. 135
_2 Cred._ No, as they please: their Master’s a good man.
I would they were the _Burmudas_.
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