_Rom._ My Lord,
I am not stubborne, I can melt, you see, 195
And prize a vertue better then my life:
For though I be not learnd, I euer lou’d
That holy Mother of all issues, good,
Whose white hand (for a Scepter) holds a File
To pollish roughest customes, and in you 200
She has her right: see, I am calme as sleepe,
But when I thinke of the grosse iniuries
The godlesse wrong done, to my Generall dead,
I raue indeed, and could eate this Nouall
A lsoule-esse Dromodary.
_Roch._ Oh bee temperate, 205
Sir, though I would perswade, I’le not constraine:
Each mans opinion freely is his owne,
Concerning any thing or any body,
Be it right or wrong, tis at the Iudges perill.
_Enter Baumond,_
_Bau._ These men, Sir, waite without, my Lord is come too. 210
_Roch._ Pay ’em those summes vpon the table, take
Their full releases: stay, I want a witnesse:
Let mee intreat you Colonell, to walke in,
And stand but by, to see this money pay’d,
It does concerne you and your friends, it was 215
The better cause you were sent for, though sayd otherwise.
The deed shall make this my request more plaine.
_Rom._ I shall obey your pleasure Sir, though ignorant
To what is tends?
_Exit Seruant: Romont. Enter Charolois_
_Roch._ Worthiest Sir, 220
You are most welcome: fye, no more of this:
You haue out-wept a woman, noble Charolois.
No man but has, or must bury a father.
_Char._ Graue Sir, I buried sorrow, for his death,
In the graue with him. I did neuer thinke 225
Hee was immortall, though I vow I grieue,
And see no reason why the vicious,
Vertuous, valiant and vnworthy man
Should dye alike.
_Roch._ They do not.
_Char._ In the manner
Of dying, Sir, they do not, but all dye, 230
And therein differ not: but I haue done.
I spy’d the liuely picture of my father,
Passing your gallery, and that cast this water
Into mine eyes: see, foolish that I am,
To let it doe so.
_Roch._ Sweete and gentle nature, 235
How silken is this well comparatiuely
To other men! I haue a suite to you Sir.
_Char._ Take it, tis granted.
_Roch._ What?
_Char._ Nothing, my Lord.
_Roch._ Nothing is quickly granted.
_Char._ Faith, my Lord,
That nothing granted, is euen all I haue, 240
For (all know) I haue nothing left to grant.
_Roch._ Sir, ha’ you any suite to me? Ill grant
You something, any thing.
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