_Rom._ Not for the world.
Oh it will strike disease into your bones
Beyond the cure of physicke, drinke your blood,
Rob you of all your rest, contract your sight, 380
Leaue you no eyes but to see misery,
And of your owne, nor speach but to wish thus
Would I had perish’d in the prisons iawes:
From whence I was redeem’d! twill weare you old,
Before you haue experience in that Art, 385
That causes your affliction.
_Cha._ Thou dost strike
A deathfull coldnesse to my hearts high heate,
And shrinkst my liuer like the _Calenture_.
Declare this foe of mine, and lifes, that like
A man I may encounter and subdue it 390
It shall not haue one such effect in mee,
As thou denouncest: with a Souldiers arme,
If it be strength, Ile meet it: if a fault
Belonging to my mind, Ile cut it off
With mine owne reason, as a Scholler should 395
Speake, though it make mee monstrous.
_Rom._ Ile dye first.
Farewell, continue merry, and high Heauen
Keepe your wife chaste.
_Char._ Hump, stay and take this wolfe
Out of my brest, that thou hast lodg’d there, or
For euer lose mee.
_Rom._ Lose not, Sir, your selfe. 400
And I will venture--So the dore is fast. _Locke the dore._
Now noble _Charaloys_, collect your selfe,
Summon your spirits, muster all your strength
That can belong to man, sift passion,
From euery veine, and whatsoeuer ensues, 405
Vpbraid not me heereafter, as the cause of
Iealousy, discontent, slaughter and ruine:
Make me not parent to sinne: you will know
This secret that I burne with.
_Char._ Diuell on’t,
What should it be? _Romont_, I heare you wish 410
My wifes continuance of Chastity.
_Rom._ There was no hurt in that.
_Char._ Why? do you know
A likelyhood or possibility vnto the contrarie?
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