_King._ Upon thy certainty and confidence What darest thou venture? _Hel._ Tax of impudence, A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name 170 Sear'd otherwise, ne worse of worst extended, With vilest torture let my life be ended. _King._ Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak His powerful sound within an organ weak: And what impossibility would slay 175 In common sense, sense saves another way. Thy life is dear; for all, that life can rate Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate, Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all That happiness and prime can happy call: 180 Thou this to hazard needs must intimate Skill infinite or monstrous desperate. Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try, That ministers thine own death if I die. _Hel._ If I break time, or flinch in property 185 Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die, And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee; But, if I help, what do you promise me? _King._ Make thy demand. _Hel._ But will you make it even? _King._ Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven. 190 _Hel._ Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand What husband in thy power I will command: Exempted be from me the arrogance To choose from forth the royal blood of France, My low and humble name to propagate 195 With any branch or image of thy state; But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow. _King._ Here is my hand; the premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served: 200 So make the choice of thy own time; for I, Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely. More should I question thee, and more I must, Though more to know could not be more to trust, From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest 205 Unquestion'd welcome, and undoubted blest. Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed As high as word, my deed shall match thy deed. [_Flourish. Exeunt._ LINENOTES: ACT II.] Actus Secundus. Ff (Sæcundus F2). Enter ... attended....] Capell. Enter ... warre: Count Rosse, and Parolles. Florish Cornets. Ff. divers] two Hanmer. om. Steevens. [1, 2] _lords ... lords_] Ff. _lord ... lord_ Hanmer. See note (VI). [2] _and you_] _you_ Pope. [3] _both gain, all_] Ff. _both gain,_ Pope, _both gain, well!_ Hanmer. _both gain all,_ Johnson. _back again,_ Jackson conj. _both gain, All_ Anon. conj. See note (VII). [5] First Lord] i. Lord. Rowe. Lord G. Ff. _'Tis_] Ff. _It is_ Steevens. [9] _he owes_] _it owns_ Pope. _he owns_ Long MS. [12] _higher_] _hired_ Coleridge conj.