HIERO. [acting] Remooue Erasto, mighty Solyman, And then Perseda will be quickly wonne. BALT. [acting] Erasto is my friend; and, while he liues, Perseda neuer will remooue her loue. HIERO. [acting] Let not Erasto liue to greeue great Soliman! BALT. [acting] Deare is Erasto in our princely eye. HIERO. [acting] But, if he be your riuall, let him die! BALT. [acting] Why, let him die! so loue commaundeth me. Yet I greeve I that Erasto should so die. HIERO. [acting] Erasto, Soliman saluteth thee, And lets thee wit by me his Highnes will, Which is, thou shouldst be thus imploid. Stab him. BEL. [acting] Ay, me, Erasto! See, Solyman, Erastoes slaine! BALT. [acting] Yet liueth Solyman to comfort thee. Faire queene of beautie, let not fauour die, Both with gratious eye behlde his griefe, That with Persedaes beautie is encreast, If by Perseda griefe be not releast. BEL. [acting] Tyrant, desist soliciting vaine sutes; Relentles are mine eares to thy laments As thy butcher is pittilesse and base Which seazd on my Erasto, harmelesse knight. Yet by thy power thou thinkest to commaund, And to thy power Perseda doth obey; But, were she able, thus she would reuenge Thy treacheries on thee, ignoble prince; Stab him. And on herselfe she would be thus reuengd. Stab herselfe. KING. Well said, old marshall! this was brauely done! HIERO. But Bel-imperia plauies Perseda well. VICE. Were this in earnest, Bel-imperia, You would be better to my sonne then so. KING. But now what followes for Hieronimo? HIERO. Marrie, this followes for Hieronimo! Heere breake we off our sundrie languages, And thus conclude I in our vulgare tung: Happely you think--but bootles are your thoughts-- That this is fabulously counterfeit, And that we doo as all trageians doo,-- To die to-day, for fashioning our scene, The death of Aiax, or some Romaine peer, And, in a minute starting vp againe, Reuiue to please tomorrows audience. No, princes; know I am Hieronimo, The hopeles father of a haples sonne, Whose tung is tun'd to tell his latest tale, Not to excuse grosse errors in the play. I see your lookes vrge instance of these words: Beholde the reason vrging me to this! Showes his dead sonne.