_Mar._ I'll interrupt you:-- For love of virtue bear an honest heart, And stride o'er every politic respect, Which, where they most advance, they most infect. Were I your father, as I am your brother, I should not be ambitious to leave you A better patrimony. _Flam._ I'll think on't.-- The lord ambassadors. [_The_ Ambassadors _pass over the stage severally._ _Law._ O my sprightly Frenchman!--Do you know him? he's an admirable tilter. _Flam._ I saw him at last tilting: he showed like a pewter candlestick, fashioned like a man in armour, holding a tilting-staff in his hand, little bigger than a candle of twelve i' the pound. _Law._ O, but he's an excellent horseman. _Flam._ A lame one in his lofty tricks: he sleeps a-horseback, like a poulter.[46] _Law._ Lo you, my Spaniard! _Flam._ He carries his face in's ruff, as I have seen a serving man carry glasses in a cypress hatband, monstrous steady, for fear of breaking: he looks like the claw of a blackbird, first salted, and then broiled in a candle. [_Exeunt._ ACT THE THIRD. SCENE I.--_A Hall in_ MONTICELSO'S _Mansion._ _Enter_ FRANCISCO DE MEDICIS, MONTICELSO, _the six lieger_ Ambassadors, BRACHIANO, VITTORIA COROMBONA, FLAMINEO, MARCELLO, Lawyer, _and a_ Guard. _Mont._ Forbear, my lord, here is no place assigned you: This business by his holiness is left To our examination. [_To_ BRACH. _Brach._ May it thrive with you! [_Lays a rich gown under him._ _Fran. de Med._ A chair there for his lordship! _Brach._ Forbear your kindness: an unbidden guest Should travel as Dutchwomen go to church, Bear their stools with them. _Mont._ At your pleasure, sir.-- Stand to the table, gentlewoman [_To_ VITTORIA].--Now, signior, Fall to your plea. _Law. Domine judex, converte oculos in hanc pestem, mulierum corruptissimam._ _Vit. Cor._ What's he? _Fran. de Med._ A lawyer that pleads against you. _Vit. Cor._ Pray, my lord, let him speak his usual tongue; I'll make no answer else. _Fran. de Med._ Why, you understand Latin. _Vit. Cor._ I do, sir; but amongst this auditory Which come to hear my cause, the half or more May be ignorant in't. _Mont._ Go on, sir. _Vit. Cor._ By your favour, I will not have my accusation clouded In a strange tongue; all this assembly Shall hear what you can charge me with. _Fran. de Med._ Signior, You need not stand on't much; pray, change your language. _Mont._ O, for God sake!--Gentlewoman, your credit Shall be more famous by it. _Law._ Well, then, have at you! _Vit. Cor._ I am at the mark, sir: I'll give aim to you, And tell you how near you shoot.