_Men._ All thanks; our hand shall not be close to thee: farewell. [_Aside._] Now is my treachery secure, nor can we fall: Mischief that prospers, men do virtue call. I'll trust no man: he that by tricks gets wreaths Keeps them with steel; no man securely breathes 270 Out of deservèd[555] ranks; the crowd will mutter, "fool:" Who cannot bear with spite, he cannot rule. The chiefest secret for a man of state Is, to live senseless of a strengthless hate. [_Exit._ _Mal._ [_starting up_] Death of the damned thief! I'll make one i' the mask; thou shalt ha' some brave spirits of the antique dukes. _Cel._ My lord, what strange delusion? _Mal._ Most happy, dear Celso, poisoned with an empty box: I'll give thee all, anon: my lady comes to court; there is a whirl of fate comes tumbling on; the castle's captain stands for me, the people pray for me, and the great leader of the just stands for me: then courage, Celso; 284 For no disastrous chance can ever move him That leaveth nothing but a God above him. [_Exeunt._ [531] "O fool.... Adieu, Madam Maquerelle" (ll. 10-39).--This passage was added in ed. 2. [532] "_Griffon_ is one of the heroes of _Orlando Furioso_, from whence one might suspect these lines to be taken. I do not, however, find them there."--_Reed._ For "spleen" in l. 37 all the editions give "stream." [533] _i.e._, yield.--Ed. 2. "cowe." [534] Rosicleer and Donzel del Phebo were heroes in the romance of _The Mirrour of Knighthood_. See note 3, p. 30. [535] Ed. 2. "sake." [536] Ed. 2. "this." [537] The term _cockatrice_ seems to have been specially applied to a captain's mistress, though it is also found as a general name for a courtesan. [538] Cicero, _Epist. ad Fam._ ix. 22. [539] "Make way there.... Peace! cornets!" (ll. 164-194).--This passage was added in ed. 2. [540] These are the words that Bilioso had used to Malevole, ii. 2. l. 64. [541] Ovid's _Tristia_, ii. 33. [542] Cog, wheedle.--"Sadayer. To handle gently or stroke softly; also to flatter, smooth, cog, or _collogue with_."--_Cotgrave._ The word also means--confer for an unlawful purpose. [543] Acquire wealth.--_Purchase_ was a cant term for stolen goods, but it was also used in the general sense of riches. [544] Ed. 1. "deedes." [545] Seneca, _Agam._ 115.