_Beau._ One stampe more would do well: yet I desire not
You should grow horne-mad, till you haue a wife.
You are come to warme meate, and perhaps cleane linnen:
Feed, weare it, and bee thankefull. For me, know, 195
That though a thousand watches were set on mee,
And you the Master-spy, I yet would vse,
The liberty that best likes mee. I will reuell,
Feast, kisse, imbreace, perhaps grant larger fauours:
Yet such as liue vpon my meanes, shall know 200
They must not murmur at it. If my Lord
Bee now growne yellow, and has chose out you
To serue his Iealouzy that way, tell him this,
You haue something to informe him:
_Exit Beau._
_Rom._ And I will.
Beleeue it wicked one I will. Heare, Heauen, 205
But hearing pardon mee: if these fruts grow
Vpon the tree of marriage, let me shun it,
As a forbidden sweete. An heyre and rich,
Young, beautifull, yet adde to this a wife,
And I will rather choose a Spittle sinner 210
Carted an age before, though three parts rotten,
And take it for a blessing, rather then
Be fettered to the hellish slauery
Of such an impudence.
_Enter Baumont with writings._
_Bau._ Collonell, good fortune
To meet you thus: you looke sad, but Ile tell you 215
Something that shall remoue it. Oh how happy
Is my Lord _Charaloys_ in his faire bride!
_Rom._ A happy man indeede!--pray you in what?
_Bau._ I dare sweare, you would thinke so good a Lady,
A dower sufficient.
_Rom._ No doubt. But on. 220
_Bau._ So faire, so chaste, so vertuous: so indeed
All that is excellent.
_Rom._ Women haue no cunning
To gull the world.
_Bau._ Yet to all these, my Lord
Her father giues the full addition of
All he does now possesse in _Burgundy_: 225
These writings to confirme it, are new seal’d
And I most fortunate to present him with them,
I must goe seeke him out, can you direct mee?
_Rom._ You’l finde him breaking a young horse.
_Bau._ I thanke you.
_Exit Baumont._
_Rom._ I must do something worthy _Charaloys_ friendship. 230
If she were well inclin’d to keepe her so,
Deseru’d not thankes: and yet to stay a woman
Spur’d headlong by hot lust, to her owne ruine,
Is harder then to prop a falling towre
With a deceiuing reed.
_Enter Rochfort._
_Roch._ Some one seeke for me, 235
As soone as he returnes.
_Rom._ Her father! ha?
How if I breake this to him? sure it cannot
Meete with an ill construction. His wisedome
Made powerfull by the authority of a father,
Will warrant and giue priuiledge to his counsailes. 240
It shall be so--my Lord.
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