Kings and rulers -- Drama; Revenge -- Drama; Tragedies (Drama)
_Ser_. And you Sir; what's your business?
_Asp_. With you Sir now, to do me the Office
To help me to you[r] Lord.
_Ser_. What, would you serve him?
_Asp_. I'le do him any service; but to haste,
For my affairs are earnest, I desire to speak with
him.
_Ser_. Sir, because you are in such haste, I would be loth
delay you any longer: you cannot.
_Asp_. It shall become you tho' to tell your Lord.
_Ser_. Sir, he will speak with no body.
_Asp_. This is most strange: art thou gold proof? there's
for thee; help me to him.
_Ser_. Pray be not angry Sir, I'le do my best.
[_Exit_.
_Asp_. How stubbornly this fellow answer'd me!
There is a vile dishonest trick in man,
More than in women: all the men I meet
Appear thus to me, are harsh and rude,
And have a subtilty in every thing,
Which love could never know; but we fond women
Harbor the easiest and smoothest thoughts,
And think all shall go so; it is unjust
That men and women should be matcht together.
_Enter_ Amintor _and his man_.
_Amint_. Where is he!
_Ser_. There my Lord.
_Amint_. What would you Sir?
_Asp_. Please it your Lordship to command your man
Out of the room; shall deliver things
Worthy your hearing.
_Amint_. Leave us.
_Asp_. O that that shape should bury falshood in it.
[_Aside_.
_Amint_. Now your will Sir.
_Asp_. When you know me, my Lord, you needs must guess
My business! and I am not hard to know;
For till the change of War mark'd this smooth face
With these few blemishes people would call me
My Sisters Picture, and her mine; in short,
I am the brother to the wrong'd _Aspatia_.
_Amint_. The wrong'd _Aspatia_! would thou wert so too
Unto the wrong'd _Amintor_; let me kiss
That hand of thine in honour that I bear
Unto the wrong'd _Aspatia_: here I stand
That did it; would he could not; gentle youth
Leave me, for there is something in thy looks
That calls my sins in a most hideous form
Into my mind; and I have grief enough
Without thy help.
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