_Archid._ With my consent too, All injuries forgotten. _Timag._ I will study, In my future service, to deserve your favour, And good opinion. _Leost._ Thus I gladly fee This advocate to plead for me. [_Kissing Statilia._ _Pisan._ You will find me An easy judge. When I have yielded reasons Of your bondmen's falling off from their obedience, Then after, as you please, determine of me. I found their natures apt to mutiny From your too cruel usage, and made trial How far they might be wrought on; to instruct you To look with more prevention and care To what they may hereafter undertake Upon the like occasions. The hurt 's little They have committed; nor was ever cure, But with some pain, effected. I confess, In hope to force a grant of fair Cleora, I urged them to defend the town against you; Nor had the terror of your whips, but that I was preparing for defence elsewhere, So soon got entrance: In this I am guilty; Now, as you please, your censure. _Timol._ Bring them in; And, though you've given me power, I do entreat Such as have undergone their insolence, It may not be offensive, though I study Pity, more than revenge. _Coris._ 'Twill best become you. _Cleon._ I must consent. _Asot._ For me, I'll find a time To be revenged hereafter. _Timol._ And now, the war being ended to our wishes, And such as went the pilgrimage of love, Happy in full fruition of their hopes, 'Tis lawful, thanks paid to the Powers divine, To drown our cares in honest mirth and wine. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [128] Cleo. _Sir, you graced me With the title of your mistress._] This alludes to the request in the first act, that he might be permitted _to wear her colours_. In those days of gallantry, I mean those of Massinger, not of Timoleon, to wear a lady's colours, that is, a scarf, or a riband, taken from her person, was to become her authorized champion and servant.--GIFFORD. [129] _Censured_,] i. e. _judged_. It may be observed, that our ancestors used _censure_ precisely as we now do judgment: sometimes for a quality of the mind, and sometimes for a judicial determination.--GIFFORD. [130] _The gods and fautors_,] in the language of the author means the _favouring gods_. [131] _This Persian shape laid by_,] i. e. the _dress_ of a Persian slave, which Statilia had assumed, with the name of Timandra. _Shape_ is a term borrowed from the tiring-room of the theatres. In the list of dramatis personæ prefixed to _The Virgin Martyr_, Harpax is said to be, "an evil spirit following Theophilus in the _shape_ (habit) of a secretary."--GIFFORD. THE MAID OF HONOUR.