_Theoph._ Cæsar's imperial daughter, hear me speak. Let not this Christian thing in this her pageantry Of proud deriding both our gods and Cæsar, Build to herself a kingdom in her death, Going laughing from us: no; her bitterest torment Shall be, to feel her constancy beaten down; The bravery of her resolution lie Batter'd, by argument, into such pieces, That she again in penitence shall creep To kiss the pavements of our paynim gods. _Artem._ How to be done? _Theoph._ I'll send my daughters to her, And they shall turn her rocky faith to wax; Else spit at me, let me be made your slave, And meet no Roman's but a villain's grave. _Artem._ Thy prisoner let her be, then; and, Sapritius, Your son and that[43], be yours: death shall be sent To him that suffers them, by voice or letters, To greet each other. Rifle her estate; Christians to beggary brought grow desperate. _Dor._ Still on the bread of poverty let me feed. _Ang._ O! my admired mistress, quench not out The holy fires within you, though temptations Shower down upon you: Clasp thine armour on, Fight well, and thou shalt see, after these wars, Thy head wear sunbeams, and thy feet touch stars. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [40] _Owes_,] i. e. _owns_. [41] _Parted_,] i. e. _endowed with a part_. [42] _Bandog!_] A _bandog_, as the name imports, was a dog so fierce, as to require to be chained up. Bandogs are frequently mentioned by our old writers (indeed the word occurs three times in this play) and always with a reference to their savage nature. If the term was appropriated to a species, it probably meant a large dog, of the mastiff kind, which, though no longer met with here, is still common in many parts of Germany: it was familiar to Snyders, and is found in most of his hunting-pieces. In this country the bandog was kept to bait bears: with the decline of that sport, perhaps, the animal fell into disuse, as he was too ferocious for any domestic purpose. Mr. Gilchrist has furnished me with a curious passage from Laneham, which renders any further details on the subject unnecessary. "On the syxth day of her Majestyes cumming, a great sort of _bandogs_ whear thear tyed in the utter coourt, and thyrteen bears in the inner. Whoosoever made the pannel, thear wear enoow for a queast, and one for a challenge and need wear. A wight of great wisdoom and gravitie seemed their foreman to be, had it cum to a jury: but it fell oout that they wear causd to appeer thear upon no such matter, but onlie too onswear too an _auncient quarrele between them and the bandogs_," &c. _Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment at Killingwoorth Castle, in 1575_.--GIFFORD. [43] _Your son and_ that.] Macrinus, whom before she had called a pander. M. MASON. ACT III. SCENE I.