receive wounds on condition Were these by compact all my bloud is lost Since t is discredited what before was spent Ran in my name and made that live but now Great King you onely repeale my honors fall By giving death unto your enemy Our Prince resents his fate confirmes him his By a large pension and too soone intrusts With all his secrets gives him meanes to view His forts which he designes and learnes the strength Of each particular province and inform'd Of all makes his escape and is received Of the SPARTANA King with all remonstrances Of love and confess'd service but before He parted did that horrid act which LYSICLES must dye for AG. Indeed this story doth not much concerne Him if I mistake not PH. At his arrivall here he left his Neece With this designe that when his plots were ripe Without suspect he might come to the borders Hither he comes and at his entrance is By a base trayterous Servant certified Of the great love 'twixt her and LYSICLES The compact of their vowes with divers Letters The Lovers had exchang'd he stormes and cries If thou dost love young LYSICLES my hate Shall strike thee dead thy hand pluckt backe my honor When it was mounting be constant and this hand Shall by her death give thee a lingring one And my revenge in thy owne house begin Then with a barbarous unheard of cruelty Murthers his Neece and the same instant flies Fame had the next Sun blowne this through the City His house was searcht the trunke of the dead Lady Found in the Hall the head he carried with him In honor of his cruelty AG. Sure he was mad PH. I would say so too but that I would not make Him lesse guilty of this inhumanity AG. What furies governe man we hazard all Our lives and fortunes to gaine hated memories And in the search of vertue tremble at shadowes But how are you ascertain'd that he did This horrid act PH. He sent the bitter summons of her death By her that had betray'd her the report Did make her spirits throng unto her heart And sure had kild it had not Heaven decreed His hand should be as blacke as his intent She begg'd sometime for prayer and retir'd In her owne blood did write her Tragedy And parting wishes to her deare bethroth'd Now heare the strangest mistooke piety That ever entred in a Virgins breast She so much lov'd this barbarous Homicide She would not have him guilty of her death And therefore with her owne hand wounds her selfe And as she bled she writ unto her Lord At last concludes They will not let me make them innocent I 'me cald unto my death and I repent My wound because I would not hurt That which I hope you lov'd this bloody note Was found the next day in her pocket AG. And came it to the Lord LYSICLES PH. It did and if you e're had seene A hundred parents at one time deplore The unexpected deaths of their lost Children The fathers sorrow and the mothers teares Would Emblemize but not expresse his griefe Sometimes he shreekt as if h 'ad sent his soule Out in his voice sometimes stood fixt and gaz'd As if he had no sence of what he saw Sometime he 'd sound and if the memory Of his deare Mistresse even i th' gates of Death Had not pursu'd him he had certaine dyed Torment did now give life at last he drew His sword and ere he could be staid did fall Upon the point This I thinke did preserve him For not being mortall and he fainting with The losse of bloud had not then strength enough To end himselfe untill he was perswaded To live to celebrate her memory Which nightly he doth doe upon her Tombe Whither he now is gone AG. I have not heard of such a love as this PH. Nor never shall of such a beauty as did cause it 'T is late and I 'le not trouble you with her story When you are at Court all tongues will speake Her merit to your wonder I 'le bring you to your horse Exit The Tombe discovered Enter LYSICLES and a Page with a Torch Enter ERGASTO and CLEON CL. And will you marry now ER. Indeed will I CL. And what shall be done with all those lockes of haire You have ER. Why I 'le make buttons of 'em and had they halfe The value that I swore they had when I did beg 'em Rich orient Diamonds could not equall them Some came easily and some I was forc'd to dig for in the Mine CL. And your priz'd liberty what shall become of that You swore you would not marry till there were A Law established that married men Might be redeem'd as Slaves are ER. I was an Asse when I talkt so Those damb'd bookes of Chastity I read In my minority corrupted me but since I 'm practis'd in the World I find there are No greater Libertines than married men 'T is true 't was dangerous this knot in the First Age when it was a crime to breake vowes But thankes to VENVS the Scaene is altered And we act other parts I 'le tell thee The priviledges we enjoy when we are married First our secrecy is held Authentick Which is assurance will take up any woman at Interest that is not peevish then the acquaintance Which our wives bring us to whom at times I carry My wives commendations and if their husbands be Not at home I doe commend my selfe CL. For what I prethee ER. For a good Dancer A good Rider a good any thing That I thinke will please 'em CL. Thou 'lt have a damnable conceite of thy wife By thy knowledge and opinion of all other Women unlesse you thinke her a Phoenix ER. 'T will be my best resolution But harke in thy Eare Rogue I could be content to thinke and Wish mine and all for the publicke good And weare my hornes with as much confidence As the best velvet head of 'em all and paint Them in my Crest with this Inscription These he deserv'd for his love to the Common-wealth CL. A rare fame you would purchase ER. A more lasting one than any Monument you can Repeate the Epitaph of and would it not be Glorious to be commemorated as the first founder Of the Commonalty of undisparag'd Cuckolds CL. Yes and pray'd for by bastards that got better Fathers than they were destin'd to by their mothers marriages ER. And curs'd by Surgeons that were undone by Honest womens practices CL. And this done voluntarily which you will Hardly avoide though you have a thousand Guards to prevent it I that have beene your Play-fellow shall be first suspected And first banish'd ER. By JVPITER never no though 't would preserve A thousand smooth fore-heads if she be honest Your Arts cannot alter her and if otherwise Had I not rather adopt a sonne of thine Than a strangers and confesse truely CLEON Would not you for this publicke benefit be Content to sacrifice a Sister that we might
teares and sacrifice could never gaine So much upon its mercy as to lend Thy happy sight for one faint minutes comfort Yet those that sell themselves to Hell can force Thy quiet rest for inquisition on innocence And to what purpose serves faith and religious secresie When Magick mocks and frustrates all our vowes This Moore then was confederate with your Uncles passion GMO. She is the cause that I doe walke in shades LY. And I will be that she shall walke in Hell With her I will begin then seeke revenge Under the ruines of thy Uncles house All men that dare to name him and not curse His memory shall feele the power of my despised hate and friendship GHO. My dearest Lysicles promise to be But temperate in your anger and I will Discover more than you yet hop'd to know Enter Pindarus and servants LY. As justice that 's concern'd to punish crimes I will GHO. Then know I was betrai'd Oh love here 's company I must retire PIN. Talking to graves at night and making love i' th day My Lord I nor my daughter have deserv'd this LY. Pardon me Sir I could doe no lesse Being to take an everlasting farewell but give this Visite to her memory reserve your censure Till ten dayes be over and if I doe not Satisfie you condemne me Exeunt Enter HERMIONE and PHILLIDA HER Philly take thy Lute and sing the song Was given thee last Exeunt SONG VV Here did you borrow that last sigh and that relenting groane For those that sigh and not for love Vsurpe what 's not their owne Loves arrowes sooner armour pierce Than your soft snowy skinne Your our eyes can onely teach us love But cannot take it in Another sigh then I may hope The Song being ended Enter PHILLIDA PH. Oh Madam call all your sorrowes to you you are Not sad enough to heare the newes I bring HER. Would it were killing that my death might end My feares as my life has my hopes PH. You mistake me Madam Eugenio is return'd HE. Eugenio return'd thou hast reason Phillida I Should be dead with sorrow 'T is not fit we heare his name Without a miracle where is he send to bring him hither PH. He waites on your commands without HER. Bring him in Good gods if you can suffer me one minutes joy Give it me now and let excesse of happinesse Finish what sorrow cannot But where 's this happinesse I faine would dreame of Eugenio is return'd That I may looke on him and not be his And call our faiths in vaine to aide our loves Enter EVGENIO and PHILLIDA EV. May the gods give you Madam a content As high as you have power to bestow On those you favour and then your happinesse Will be as great as is your beauty HE. Oh my best Lord you now behold a face Too much acquainted with my sad hearts griefe Not to be stain'd with 't sure you cannot know it I pray say you doe not you will wrong Two things I am most proud of my just griefe And your young love which could not grow Nourish't with such poore heate as now it gives I have a story that will breake your heart When you have heard it and mine ere I Deliver it Prince Lysicks to morrow marries me Or I must leave my duty or my life Forgive me that I dare to utter this Eu. Madam forbeare your teares they are a ransome Too mighty to redeeme the greatest faith The gods were ever witnesse to I know Whereto you tend you would have me untye The knot that bound our loves and I will do 't Though it be fasten'd to my strings of life Be happie in your choice give to his merit What once you promis'd to my perfit love By which I onely did pretend my claime I doe release you as I know heaven has Who in his justice cannot have consented To a longer faith in you you must not be The conquest of a miserable man O're whom their cruelst influences raigne HE. Some saving power close up my drowned eyes Which death had long since shut had not the love And hope of seeing you preserv'd them open Have I beene false for this to all my friends That you should thinke I can be so to you Adde not by your suspitions a crime to our mis-fortune Eu. Of you I can have none but what excuse you You had made me miserable had not your faith Yeelded to those assaults as worth and greatnesse Titles your fathers rage and your owne judgement Did shake and raze it with what disturbed minde Should I have look'd on you my heart ador'd And love made miserable still you weepe But these are teares your fortune did lay up To ease your misery had you continned mine And your Sunnes clear'd from their last clouds They will more freely shine upon your Lysicles For my selfe my love in his last act shall recompence The injuries 't as done to your repose By killing me then must injustice flie And hale inconstancie along with her From your faire conquered soule they now possesse HE. Oh my griefes Now I perceive the gods decreed you endlesse Since they have made him adde unto my torment Whose memory before did make the sharpest glorious Teares and sighes and groanes farewell They ne're were spent but when I feard for you And you being lost I have no use of them Here take this paper 't is the last Legacy My love shall ever give you 't was design'd When I conceiv'd you worthy If you beleeve her words whose faith was never lost Though you ungratefully have flung it off If so you be not that you accuse me for you there shall finde A story that will punish your suspition He reades and then kneeles and she turnes from him Eu. You that by powerfull prayers have diverted An imminent ruine inspire me with fit words To appease my injur'd Mistresse heare me doe not kneele for mercy but to begge Your leave to dye I must not live When pardons make my offence most horrible And hell is here without them take a middle way If you incline to mercy and forget me HER. Rise this is worse than your doubts were Turne not your face away would you revenge Then let my eyes dwell on 't what punishment Can there be greater than for me to see the beauty I have lost By my owne fault looke then upon me HER. No I must yet keepe my anger to preserve my honour And I dare not trust that and my eyes at once If they behold you Eu. Then heare a wretched man that has out-liv'd So much his hopes he knowes not what to wish Whether to live or die yet life for this I onely seeke that you may finde I shrinke not To punish him your Justice has condemn'd HER. Rise I can hold out no longer the bare sounds Of your death dissolve my resolutions Forget my anger as I will the cause Eu. Never it shall live here to honour me Since pitty of my love
Love no longer by obligations but affection and Seeing liking and enjoying finish'd in a meeting CL. Unlesse I had meanes to appropriate one you Cannot suspect but I should wish a title unto all But what hopes have you of your Mistris ER. No airy ones of liking and affection but mine Are built on terrafirma already which her father Lookes on greedily and proportions This to that grand-child to the second this CL. Is he not somewhat startled at the report of Thy debauchery for though your thicke set woods And spreading Vineyards make excellent shades To keepe away the Sun I meane the piercing eye Of censure yet some suspicious common fame will raise ER. Indeede it was my enemy whilst my elder brother liv'd CL. But since his death you are altred I must Confesse it for then the slendernesse of your Annuity allowed you but the election of some One sinne I meane a cherisht sin whilst The others repin'd that thought themselves Of equall dignity in time they had their turnes Yet singly still but since your brothers Death You have shewne your selfe a gratefull Gentleman and recompenc'd those that have Suffred for you to the full ER. A pretty Satyre this to whip boyes of nine Yet still I tell thee I am another in the opinion of the world CL. Another Heliogabalus thou wouldst be Hadst thou his power but by what conjuration can You bring me to thinke it ER. By reason which is a spirit will hardly be Rais'd in you but thus it is whilst my brother Liv'd my wildnesse was observed by CL. But now you walke in shades recluse and shut Up in your Coach your painted Liveries Supposed Faries and she that you were wont to Visit by the name of Madam Ruffiana is now Your Aunt all this I am perfit in yet cannot Reach the mystery of your suppos'd disguise You say doth Masque you ER. Heare me and be converted I say I was Observed by those that were neerest in blood to me And with feare too least the ruine of my Fortune might force them to supply my wants This caus'd the Ague this the admonitions and Frequent counsels sometimes severe reproofes Every one curling himselfe from any hopes of mine They would assist me and those gave largest counsels That would give nothing else CL. Of this I am yet a sad party and a witnesse too ER. Since my brothers death the names of things Are changed my ryots are the bounties of my nature Carelesnesse the freedome of my soule My prodigality an easenesse of mind proportion'd To my fortune beleeve me CLEON this poverty Is that which puts a multiplying-glasse upon our Faults and makes 'em swell and fill the eye Our crimes cry highest then when they have brought us low CL. I have not knowne any condemn'd for playing But for loosing ER. True and let it be thy rule for all things else CL. It this be certain 't will be long ere I be reputed vertuous ER. Thou 'lt never be unlesse it be this way I prophesie good CLEON CL. 'T is a sad story pray let us leave it Have you no Rivals ER. None present that I can feare having her Fathers firme consent CL. EVGENIO your Rivall still continues banisht ER. And I hope will till I am full possessed of HERMIONE CL. Did you give him cause to draw upon you in th' garison ER. Nor knew then any of offence or his pretences Which his folly look'd I should devine he met me on the guard And drew upon me we had a lettle scuffle Were parted and he banisht for the insolence CL. Prince LYSICLES labours to recall him ER. By all meanes he was by in the nois'd battle saw the Prince cleave this man to the twist divide a second overthrow A third he is his Trumpet CL. His actions need none ER. Wilt thou be happy CLEON beleeve not Fame So farre as to make thy selfe lesse than another man There were thousands that served for sixe Sestersce That did more than both yet sleepe forgotten 'T is Now time to meet the Ladies on the walke Exeunt Enter LYSICLES kneeles to the Tombe and then speakes LY. I doe prophane this place for were my griefes As great as I would boast 'em I could not live To tell them to the World Or is the passage which my soule should make Shut up with sorrow 'T is so and a joy A hopefull joy to meete her must give freedome To my sad prisoner when my hand shall lead This dagger to his heart that parted ours And Heaven that heares this vow powre on my head Dire thunder if I shrinke in what I promise And sacred'st Saint if from thy place of rest Thou turn'st thy eyes upon thy holy Relickes Accept my vowes and pardon me the life Of the curst Homicide a full revenge Of thy Death and my lives misery Shall make him pay the time he has out-liv'd My happinesse and when he is falne Present thy selfe in all thy glories to me That my freed soule may owe her liberty To no force but impatient longing Of re-injoying thee and holy Tombe The Altar where my heart is nightly offered Let my wing'd love have passage through thy marble And fan the sacred ashes knowing no heate But what he takes from them so peace and rest Dwell ever with thee Exit Enter HERMIONE IRENE PHILLIDA all vailed IR. Deare HERMIONE pinch me or I shal sink with laughter HER. What said the stranger PHILLIDA I did not heare it PHI. Nothing madam HER. Then he did talke by signes he was long about it What was 't IRENE IR. He long importun'd her to shew her face which After many urgings she consented to and he in Recompence made a low Revernce to her and Then thankes her for the great favour and Concludes he never did receive so great a one From any woman since all else have done with them A reference to themselves but hers was meerely Goodnesse for before he saw her be might Have suspected her face handsomely hid for a Peece of beauty if her vertue would have Suffered him to be longer in that errour PHI. I would I were a man for his sake IR. So you told him and he still courteous for All your anger promis'd to give you what you Wanted of a Man or teach you how to make one HER. Thou wilt never be old wench if thou still Keep'st this humour Enter ERGASTO and CLEON IR. Not a sigh older these seven yeares if 't Please Sir CVPID for he blowes our bellowes But looke yonder 's your servant there 's no Starting now you must stand too 't but before He comes to interrupt us observe with me How in that deepe band short cloake and his Great bootes he lookes three stories high and His head is the garret where he keepes nothing but lists of Horse matches and some designes for his next cloaths PHI. Where is his cellarage IR. He 'll shew it thee himselfe deare PHILLIDA and Thine too if thou wilt have
the ashes Of his lost Mistresse HER. By this judge how miserable I am That my malignant Starres force them to change Nature and Vertue too that else would shine Unmoved like the Starre that does direct The wandering Sea-men must then Nature change And will not Fortune cease to persecute Good gods I will submit to all but breach of faith MO. They will not heare us Madam unlesse we Contribute to their aide our best indeavours I have thought a way may for a time secure you You must dissemble with the Prince and seeme To love ERGASTO 'T is not impossible but he seeing you Preferre one so beneath him may provoke A just neglect from him then for ERGASTO Besides the time you gaine there may succeed A thousand waies to hinder his pretence HER. Can my heart e're consent my tongue should say I am to any other but EVGENIO No my deare Love though cruell Fate hath sever'd My vow'd embraces yet hath Death Ice enough To fright all others from them MO. I see Love is a Child still what a trifle Doth now disturbe him You will not get your health O' th price of saying you are sicke I know There is another remedy more proportion'd for your disease But not for you that suffer which is this Tell the Prince that you 're engag'd but he That broke with vowes and friendship for your love Will not desist for such suppos'd slight lets And then your Father will force you to his will HER. If the Prince leave me it is most certaine He 'le use his power to make me take ERGASTO MO. Those that in dangers that doe presse them nearely Will not resolve Upon some hazard and give leave to chance To governe what our knowledge cannot hinder Must sit still and waite their preservation from a miracle HER. I am determin'd for knives fire and Seas shall lose Their qualities ere Fate shall make me his And if Death cannot be shun'd I 'le meet it boldly Enter IRENE IR. Cozen the Prince is come to see you MO. Good Madam use some meanes that I may speake With him before he goes my heart doth promise I shall doe something in your service and Be sure when he first speakes of love seeme not To understand him Exit Enter LYSICLES LY. Madam I have beg'd leave of your Noble Father To offer up my selfe a servant to your vertues HER. It is a grace our family must boast of That you descend to visit those that stile Themselves your creatures made such by your goodnesse Which we can onely pay by frequent praiers That your Line may last as glorious to Posterity as your now living fame is LY. Madam you were not wont by a feigned praise To scorne those that admire you or would you thus Insinuate what I should be by telling Me I am what I must ever aime at HER. Were there proportion 'twixt our births my Lord I would ill become a Virgins mouth to utter How much you doe deserve that will excuse When I shall say our Greece ne're saw your equall LY. I did not thinke I ever could be mov'd With my owne praise but now my happinesse So much depends that you shall truely thinke What now you utter of me that I glory My actions are thus favour'd by your judgement HER. VVe must forget our safeties and the gods VVhose Instrument you were of our deliverance When we are silent of the mighty Debt This Kingdome owes your courage LY. This declaration of your favouring me will plead My pardon if I doe omit the Ceremoniall circumstance Which usually makes way for this great truth I now must utter Madam I doe love Your vertues with that adoration That the all-seeing Sunne does not behold A Lady that I love with equall ardour Our friends have most power over us both Doe second my desires of joyning us In the sacred tye of Marriage HER. My Lord I thought at first how ill my words Became a Virgins but give 'em the right sence They were design'd which was to speake you truely Not with a flatt'ring ambition They might engage you to the love of one So farre unequall if I have ever gain'd Any thing on your goodnesse I 'le not lose it By foolishly aspiring to that height You must in honour dispossesse me of When I was seated Marry you my Lord The King our neighbour Princes all good men Must curse me as a staine to those great vertues You 're the single Lord of if you speake this to try What easie conquest you can make of all You faintly but pretend to I 'le confesse The weakenesse of our Sexe who would be prouder Onely to have the shewes of your affection Than reall loves of any they can hope With Justice to attaine to LY. What ever I deserve The gods have largely recompenc'd my intent Of doing vertuously if it hath gain'd so much Upon your goodnesse as to make a way for my affection HER. My Lord I doe not understand you LY. Pardon me dearest Lady if my words Too boldly doe deliver what my actions And frequent services should first have smooth'd The way they are to take my Happinesse So nearely is concern'd you shall approve Me for your Servant that I trembling hast To know what rigours or what joyes expect me But ere you doe begin to speake my Fate Know whom you doe condemne or whom make happy One that when misery had made so wretched That it ravisht his desires to change Whose eyes were turned inward on his griefe Pleas'd with no object but what caus'd their teares Your beauty onely rais'd from his darke seate Of circling sorrowes lighting me a hope By you I might receive all happinesse The gods have made my heart capacious of HER. Good my Lord give me leave againe to say I dare not understand you you are too noble To glory in the conquest of a heart That ever hath admir'd you and to thinke You can so farre forget your Birth and Vertue As to beleeve me fit to be your Wife Were a presumption that swelling pride Must be the father of which never yet My heart could be ally'd to continue Prince Be the example of a constant love And let not your MILESIA'S ashes shrinke With a new piercing cold which they will feele I' th' instant that your heart shall be consenting To any new affection and give me leave to say Your mind can ne're admit a noble Love If it hath banisht hers your memory LY. Must that be argument of cruelty Which should be cause of pitty And will you Assume the Patronage of envious Fortune By adding torments unto her affliction Must I be miserable in loosing you Because the gods thought me unworthy her Did I so easily digest her death That I want pitty and am thought unworthy Of all succeeding love Witnesse my losse of joyes if sorrow could Have kill'd me I had not liv'd to shew you mercy HER. Protect me Vertue Pardon me my Lord I know your griefes How great
possibility Of being happy by it But we must expect Till the same power that plac't us here commands A restitution of his gift This is indeed a rule To make us live but not live happily 'T is true the slave that frees himselfe by death Doth wrong his Master but yet the gods are not Necessitous of us but we of them Who then is injur'd if I kill my selfe And if I durst to heare their voyce they call Men to some other place when they remove The gust and taste of this we should adore thee death If constant vertue not inforcement built Thy spacious Temples Enter EVGENIO Welcome Eugenio welcome worthie friend How long are you arrivd Eu. Time enough to revenge though not prevent The injuries you have done me LY. VVhat meanes my friend Eu. I must not heare that name now you have lost The effects and vertue of it I come to punish Your breach of faith LY. Is Hell affeard my constancie should conquer The mischiefes that are rais'd to swallow me That it invents new plagues to batter me By all that 's holy I never did offend my friend Not in a thought Eu. Those that by breach of vowes provoke their justice Doe seldome feare prophaning of their names To hide their perjuries will put it on them You have attempted my Hermione And forc'd her father to compell her voice Unto your Marriage LY. All this I doe confesse but 't was for both your goods As I will now informe you Eu. Hell and furies because your specious titles Your spreading Vineyards and your guilded house Doe shine upon our Cottage must our faiths VVhich Heaven did seale be cancell'd 't was my vertue VVonne her faire graces which still out-shine Your flames of vice LY. It hath not light enough to let you see your friend Gods Could that man have liv'd that dar'd to say Eugenio did suspect his Lysicles And now in pittie you doe shew him mee That I may flie the world without regreet Not leaving one of worth behinde me in it Begon and learne your errours Eu. I have don 't alreadie they were trusting you VVith my lifes happinesse draw and restore the vowes You made Hermione or I will leave you dead And teare them from your heart LY. Fond man thou dost not know how much 't is in My power to make thee miserable I could now force thee execute my wish In killing mee and thou wouldst flie the light VVhen it had shewd thee whom thy rage offended But till I fall by my owne hand my life Is chain'd unto my honour which I will weare Upon my Sepulchre nor must I die Being guilty of Milesia's murther For any cause but hers else were my breast Since you have wrong'd me open to your poynt Eu. Can you denie but that you have attempted The faith of my Hermione LY. I can with so strong circumstance of truth VVould make you blush for have doubted mine But he that was my friend and suspects me Must attend lesse satisfaction than a stranger Proceede and let your case be both your judge and guide Eu. What should I doe I dare not trust my sence If he should tell me that it does deceive me Vertue it selfe would lose her qualitie E're he forsooke her and his words doe fall Distorted from him his soule doth labour Vnder some heavy burthen which my passion Did hinder me from seeing Sir forgive Or take your full revenge let your owne griefes Teach you to pitty those are distract with it I will not rise untill you pardon me LY. Oh my Eugenio thy kindnesse hath undone me My rage did choake my griefe which now did spread It selfe over my soule and body up and helpe To beare me till I fall eternally Eu. Who can heare this and not be turn'd to Marble Good Sir impart your sorrowes I may bring comfort LY. Whilst they were capable thou didst but now They are too great and swolne to let it in Milesia Whom you and J supposed dead By me to day is poison'd and lies dying in her torment Is not this strange Eu. VVhat have you said that is not But heaven avert this last LY. It is too late now let me beg thy kindnesse VVould doe that for me J forbad thy passion Eu. VVhat is 't LY. Kill me Eu. You cannot wish me such an hated office Call up your reasons and your courage to you VVhich was not given you onely for the warres But to resist the batteries of Fortune People will say that Lysicles did want Part of that courage Fame did speake him Lord of VVhen they shall heare him sunke below her succour LY. You will not kill me then Eu. VVhen I beleeve there is no other meanes to ease you I will doe 't LY. All but death are fled Eu. Then draw your sword and as J lift my arme To sheath this in your breast let yours pierce me On this condition J may doe your will LY. J may not for the world why should you die Eu. See how your passions blinde you is Death An ease or torment if it be a joy VVhy should you envie it your dearest friend LY. Our causes are not equall Eu. They will be when you are dead How you mistake The Lawes of Friendship and commit those faults You did accuse me of J would not live so long To thinke you can survive your dying friend LY. Eugenio I am conquerd yet I hoep thy kindnesse Will doe that for me which thy sword refuseth Love thy Hermione she deserves it friend Leave me alone a while Eu. Your griefe 's too great for me to trust your life with 't I dare not venture you beyond my helpe Within Where 's Prince Lysicles where 's Prince Lysicles LY. Hearke I am cal'd the fatall newes is come Drawes Eu. Fie how unmanly 's this Can sounds affright you Which yet you know not whether they doe bring Or joyes or sorrowes when remedies are despair'd of You have still leave to dye perhaps she lives And you le exhale her soule into your wounds And be the death of her you mourne for living Within Where 's Prince Lysicles where 's Prince Lysicles Eu. It is the voyce of comfort none would strive To be a sad relator I le call him holla here he is Enter a Servant SER. The strange Lady kisses your hands my Lord Arnaldo Has restor'd her she bad me say your sight can onely Give perfection to what he has begunne Eu. Will you dye now LY. Softly good friend gently let it slide Into my breast my hearts too narrow yet To take so full a joy in You 're sure this newes is true SER. On my Life Eu. Why should you doubt it LY. My comforts ever were like Winter Sunnes That rise late and set betimes set with thicke Clouds That hide their light at noone but be this true And I have life enough to let me see it I shall be ever happy Eu. So 't is well at length his hope hath taught despaire to