_Beau._ Performe I must.
_Roch._ Why how now _Beaumelle_, thou look’st not well.
Th’ art sad of late, come cheere thee, I haue found
A wholesome remedy for these mayden fits, 145
A goodly Oake whereon to twist my vine,
Till her faire branches grow vp to the starres.
Be neere at hand, successe crowne my intent,
My businesse fills my little time so full,
I cannot stand to talke: I know, thy duty 150
Is handmayd to my will, especially
When it presents nothing but good and fit.
_Beau._ Sir, I am yours. Oh if my teares proue true, _Exit Daug_
Fate hath wrong’d loue, and will destroy me too.
_Enter Romont keeper_
_Rom._ Sent you for me, sir?
_Roch._ Yes.
_Rom._ Your Lordships pleasure? 155
_Roch._ Keeper, this prisoner I will see forth comming
Vpon my word--Sit downe good Colonell. _Exit keeper._
Why I did wish you hither, noble sir,
Is to aduise you from this yron carriage,
Which, so affected, _Romont_, you weare, 160
To pity and to counsell yee submit
With expedition to the great _Nouall_:
Recant your sterne contempt, and slight neglect
Of the whole Court, and him, and opportunity,
Or you will vndergoe a heauy censure 165
In publique very shortly.
_Rom._ Hum hum: reuerend sir,
I haue obseru’d you, and doe know you well,
And am now more affraid you know not me,
By wishing my submission to _Nouall_,
Then I can be of all the bellowing mouthes 170
That waite vpon him to pronounce the censure,
Could it determine me torments, and shame.
Submit, and craue forgiuenesse of a beast?
Tis true, this bile of state weares purple Tissue.
Is high fed, proud: so is his Lordships horse, 175
And beares as rich Caparisons. I know,
This Elephant carries on his back not onely
Towres, Castles, but the ponderous republique,
And neuer stoops for’t, with his strong breath trunk
Snuffes others titles, Lordships, Offices, 180
Wealth, bribes, and lyues, vnder his rauenous iawes.
Whats this vnto my freedome? I dare dye;
And therefore aske this Cammell, if these blessings
(For so they would be vnderstood by a man)
But mollifie one rudenesse in his nature, 185
Sweeten the eager relish of the law,
At whose great helme he sits: helps he the poore
In a iust businesse? nay, does he not crosse
Euery deserued souldier and scholler,
As if when nature made him, she had made 190
The generall Antipathy of all vertue?
How sauagely, and blasphemously hee spake
Touching the Generall, the graue Generall dead,
I must weepe when I thinke on’t.
_Roch._ Sir
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