_Nou._ Gods me, hee’s angry. 335
_Rom._ I breake no Iests, but I can breake my sword
About your pates.
_Enter Charaloyes and Baumont._
_Lilad._ Heeres more.
_Aym._ Come let’s bee gone,
Wee are beleaguerd.
_Nou._ Looke they bring vp their troups.
_Pont._ Will you sit downe
With this disgrace? You are abus’d most grosely. 340
_Lilad._ I grant you, Sir, we are, and you would haue vs
Stay and be more abus’d.
_Nou._ My Lord, I am sorry,
Your house is so inhospitable, we must quit it.
_Exeunt. Manent. Char. Rom._
_Cha._ Prethee _Romont_, what caus’d this vprore?
_Rom._ Nothing.
They laugh’d and vs’d their scuruy wits vpon mee. 345
_Char._ Come, tis thy Iealous nature: but I wonder
That you which are an honest man and worthy,
Should softer this suspition: no man laughes;
No one can whisper, but thou apprehend’st
His conference and his scorne reflects on thee: 350
For my part they should scoffe their thin wits out,
So I not heard ’em, beate me, not being there.
Leaue, leaue these fits, to conscious men, to such
As are obnoxious, to those foolish things
As they can gibe at.
_Rom._ Well, Sir.
_Char._ Thou art know’n 355
Valiant without detect, right defin’d
Which is (as fearing to doe iniury,
As tender to endure it) not a brabbler,
A swearer.
_Rom._ Pish, pish, what needs this my Lord?
If I be knowne none such, how vainly, you 360
Do cast away good counsaile? I haue lou’d you,
And yet must freely speake; so young a tutor,
Fits not so old a Souldier as I am.
And I must tell you, t’was in your behalfe
I grew inraged thus, yet had rather dye, 365
Then open the great cause a syllable further.
_Cha._ In my behalfe? wherein hath _Charalois_
Vnfitly so demean’d himselfe, to giue
The least occasion to the loosest tongue,
To throw aspersions on him, or so weakely 370
Protected his owne honor, as it should
Need a defence from any but himselfe?
They are fools that iudge me by my outward seeming,
Why should my gentlenesse beget abuse?
The Lion is not angry that does sleepe 375
Nor euery man a Coward that can weepe.
For Gods sake speake the cause.
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