_Mel_. Then dare not fight with me, for that's a sin. His grief distracts him; call thy thoughts agen, And to thy self pronounce the name of friend, And see what that will work; I will not fight. _Amint_. You must. _Mel_. I will be kill'd first, though my passions Offred the like to you; 'tis not this earth Shall buy my reason to it; think a while, For you are (I must weep when I speak that) Almost besides your self. _Amint_. Oh my soft temper! So many sweet words from thy Sisters mouth, I am afraid would make me take her To embrace, and pardon her. I am mad indeed, And know not what I do; yet have a care Of me in what thou doest. _Mel_. Why thinks my friend I will forget his honour, or to save The bravery of our house, will lose his fame, And fear to touch the Throne of Majesty? _Amint_. A curse will follow that, but rather live And suffer with me. _Mel_. I will do what worth shall bid me, and no more. _Amint_. Faith I am sick, and desperately I hope, Yet leaning thus, I feel a kind of ease. _Mel_. Come take agen your mirth about you. _Amint_. I shall never do't. _Mel_. I warrant you, look up, wee'l walk together, Put thine arm here, all shall be well agen. _Amint_. Thy Love, O wretched, I thy Love, _Melantius_; why, I have nothing else. _Mel_. Be merry then. [_Exeunt. Enter Melantius agen_. _Mel_. This worthy young man may do violence Upon himself, but I have cherisht him To my best power, and sent him smiling from me To counterfeit again; Sword hold thine edge, My heart will never fail me: _Diphilus_, Thou com'st as sent. [_Enter Diphilus_. _Diph_. Yonder has been such laughing. _Mel_. Betwixt whom? _Diph_. Why, our Sister and the King, I thought their spleens would break, They laught us all out of the room. _Mel_. They must weep, _Diphilus_. _Diph_. Must they? _Mel_. They must: thou art my Brother, and if I did believe Thou hadst a base thought, I would rip it out, Lie where it durst. _Diph_. You should not, I would first mangle my self and find it. _Mel_. That was spoke according to our strain; come Joyn thy hands to mine, And swear a firmness to what project I shall lay before thee.