_Beau._ Oh seruant, vertue strengthen me.
Thy presence blowes round my affections vane:
You will vndoe me, if you speake againe.
_Exit Beaum._
_Lilad. Aym._ Heere will be sport for you. This workes.
_Exeunt Lilad. Aym._
_Nou._ Peace, peace,
_Pont._ One word, my Lord _Nouall_.
_Nou._ What, thou wouldst mony; there. 335
_Pont._ No, Ile none, Ile not be bought a slaue,
A Pander, or a Parasite, for all
Your fathers worth, though you haue sau’d my life,
Rescued me often from my wants, I must not
Winke at your follyes: that will ruine you. 340
You know my blunt way, and my loue to truth:
Forsake the pursuit of this Ladies honour,
Now you doe see her made another mans,
And such a mans, so good, so popular,
Or you will plucke a thousand mischiefes on you. 345
The benefits you haue done me, are not lost,
Nor cast away, they are purs’d heere in my heart,
But let me pay you, sir, a fayrer way
Then to defend your vices, or to sooth ’em.
_Nou._ Ha, ha, ha, what are my courses vnto thee? 350
Good Cousin _Pontalier_, meddle with that
That shall concerne thyselfe.
_Exit Nouall._
_Pont._ No more but scorne?
Moue on then, starres, worke your pernicious will.
Onely the wise rule, and preuent your ill.
_Exit. Hoboyes._
_Here a passage ouer the Stage, while the Act is playing for the
Marriage of Charalois with Beaumelle, &c._
_Actus tertius._
_Scaena prima._
[_A Room in Charalois’ House_]
_Enter Nouall Iunior, Bellapert._
_Nou. Iu._ Flie not to these excuses: thou hast bin
False in thy promise, and when I haue said
Vngratefull, all is spoke.
_Bell._ Good my Lord,
But heare me onely.
_Nou._ To what purpose, trifler?
Can anything that thou canst say, make voyd 5
The marriage? or those pleasures but a dreame,
Which _Charaloyes_ (oh _Venus_) hath enioyd?
_Bell._ I yet could say that you receiue aduantage,
In what you thinke a losse, would you vouchsafe me
That you were neuer in the way till now 10
With safety to arriue at your desires,
That pleasure makes loue to you vnattended
By danger or repentance?
_Nou._ That I could.
But apprehend one reason how this might be,
Hope would not then forsake me.
_Bell._ The enioying 15
Of what you most desire, I say th’ enioying
Shall, in the full possession of your wishes,
Confirme that I am faithfull.
_Nou._ Giue some rellish
How this may appeare possible.
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