_Cha._ It shall be needelesse, I my selfe, my Lords, Will be my owne accuser, and confesse 50 All they can charge me with, or will I spare To aggrauate that guilt with circumstance They seeke to loade me with: onely I pray, That as for them you will vouchsafe me hearing: I may not be, denide it for my selfe, 55 When I shall vrge by what vnanswerable reasons I was compel’d to what I did, which yet Till you haue taught me better, I repent not. _Roch._ The motion honest. _Charmi._ And ’tis freely granted. _Cha._ Then I confesse my Lords, that I stood bound, 60 When with my friends, euen hope it selfe had left me To this mans charity for my liberty, Nor did his bounty end there, but began: For after my enlargement, cherishing The good he did, he made me master of 65 His onely daughter, and his whole estate: Great ties of thankfulnesse I must acknowledge, Could any one freed by you, presse this further But yet consider, my most honourd Lords, If to receiue a fauour, make a seruant, 70 And benefits are bonds to tie the taker To the imperious will of him that giues, Ther’s none but slaues will receiue courtesie, Since they must fetter vs to our dishonours. Can it be cal’d magnificence in a Prince, 75 To powre downe riches, with a liberall hand, Vpon a poore mans wants, if that must bind him To play the soothing parasite to his vices? Or any man, because he sau’d my hand, Presume my head and heart are at his seruice? 80 Or did I stand ingag’d to buy my freedome (When my captiuity was honourable) By making my selfe here and fame hereafter, Bondslaues to mens scorne and calumnious tongues? Had his faire daughters mind bin like her feature, 85 Or for some little blemish I had sought For my content elsewhere, wasting on others My body and her dowry; my forhead then Deseru’d the brand of base ingratitude: But if obsequious vsage, and faire warning 90 To keepe her worth my loue, could preserue her From being a whore, and yet no cunning one, So to offend, and yet the fault kept from me? What should I doe? let any freeborne spirit Determine truly, if that thankfulnesse, 95 Choise forme with the whole world giuen for a dowry, Could strengthen so an honest man with patience, As with a willing necke to vndergoe The insupportable yoake of slaue or wittoll. _Charmi._ What proofe haue you she did play false, besides 100 your oath? _Cha._ Her owne confession to her father. I aske him for a witnesse. _Roch._ ’Tis most true. I would not willingly blend my last words With an vntruth.