_Sago._ Relate your grief; I long to hear their names Whose bastard spirits thy true worth defames. I'll wash thy scandal off when their hearts bleeds; 110 Valour makes difference betwixt words and deeds. Tell thy fame's poison, blood shall wash thee white. _Isa._ My spotless honour is a slave to spite. These are the monsters Venice doth bring forth, Whose empty souls are bankrupt of true worth: False Count Guido,[285] treacherous Gniaca, Counties[286] of Gazia, and of rich Massino. Then, if thou beest a knight, help the oppress'd; Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. And so my love---- 120 _Sago._ Ignoble villains! their best blood shall prove, Revenge falls heavy that is raised by love! _Isa._ Think what reproach is to a woman's name, Honour'd by birth, by marriage, and by beauty; Be god on earth, and revenge innocence. O, worthy Spaniard, on my knees I beg, Forget the persons, think on their offence! _Sago._ By the white soul of honour, by heav'n's Jove, They die if their death can attain your love! 129 _Isa._ Thus will I clip thy waist--embrace thee thus; Thus dally with thy hair, and kiss thee thus: Our pleasures, Protean-like, in sundry shapes Shall with variety stir dalliance. _Sago._ I am immortal. O, divinest creature, Thou dost excel the gods in wit and feature! False counts, you die, revenge now shakes his rods; Beauty condemns you--stronger than the gods. _Isa._ Come, Mars of lovers, Vulcan is not here; Make vengeance, like my bed, quite void of fear. _Sago._ My senses are entranced, and in this slumber I taste heav'n's joys, but cannot count the number. 141 [_Exeunt ambo._ [275] Ed. 1631 "running." [276] Old eds. "they now be false." [277] Exclamation of impatience. [278] Old form of _colonel_. [279] Old eds. "rarietie." (The form _rariety_--which would here be unmetrical--is sometimes found. Cf. Heywood's _Golden Age_, act iii.:-- "Then to our palace Pass on in state: let all _rarieties_ Shower down from heaven a largess.") [280] For "my potent" the editor of 1820 reads "omnipotent." [281] Not unfrequently we find a plural verb following a singular subject. [282] Ed. 1631 "sect" (a common form of "sex"). [283] Old ed. "eyes." [284] Cf. _Jul. Cæs._ ii. 2:-- "Cowards die many times before their deaths: The valiant never taste of death but once." [285] See note 2, p. 154. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [187]] [286] _i.e._ Counts.--Old eds. "Countesse." SCENE IV. _Venice.--A street._ _Enter_ Lady LENTULUS, ABIGAIL, _and_ THAIS.