of that all must as the generall sway Of that importeth willingly obay In euery thing without their power to change Hee that vnpleas'd to hold his place will range Can in no other be contain'd that 's fit And so resisting th'All is crusht with it But he that knowing how diuine a Frame The whole world is and of it all can name Without selfe-flatterie no part so diuine As hee himselfe and therefore will confine Freely his whole powers in his proper part Goes on most God-like Hee that striues t' inuert The Vniuersals course with his poore way Not onely dust-like shiuers with the sway But crossing God in his great worke all earth Beares not so cursed and so damn'd a birth Ren. Goe on I le take no care what comes of you Heauen will not see it ill how ere it show But the pretext to see these Battailes rang'd Is much your honour Cler. As the world esteemes it But to decide that you make me remember An accident of high and noble note And fits the subiect of my late discourse Of holding on our free and proper way I ouer-tooke comming from Italie In Germanie a great and famous Earle Of England the most goodly fashion'd man I euer saw from head to foote in forme Rare and most absolute hee had a face Like one of the most ancient honour'd Romanes From whence his noblest Familie was deriu'd He was beside of spirit passing great Valiant and learn'd and liberall as the Sunne Spoke and writ sweetly or of learned subiects Or of the discipline of publike weales And t' was the Earle of Oxford and being offer'd At that time by Duke Cassimere the view Of his right royall Armie then in field Refus'd it and no foote was mou'd to stirre Out of his owne free fore-determin'd course I wondring at it askt for it his reason It being an offer so much for his honour Hee all acknowledging said t' was not fit To take those honours that one cannot quit Ren. T was answer'd like the man you haue describ'd Cler. And yet he cast it onely in the way To stay and serue the world Nor did it fit His owne true estimate how much it waigh'd For hee despis'd it and esteem'd it freer To keepe his owne way straight and swore that hee Had rather make away his whole estate In things that crost the vulgar then he would Be frozen vp stiffe like a sir Iohn Smith His Countrey-man in common Nobles fashions Affecting as the end of Noblesse were Those seruile obseruations Ren. It was strange Cler. O t is a vexing sight to see a man Out of his way stalke proud as hee were in Out of his way to be officious Obseruant wary serious and graue Fearefull and passionate insulting raging Labour with iron Flailes to thresh downe feathers Flitting in ayre Ren. What one considers this Of all that are thus out or once endeuours Erring to enter on mans Right-hand path Cler. These are too graue for braue wits giue them toyes Labour bestow'd on these is harsh and thriftlesse If you would Consull be sayes one of Rome You must be watching starting out of sleepes Euery way whisking gloryfying Plebeians Kissing Patricians hands Rot at their dores Speake and doe basely euery day bestow Gifts and obseruance vpon one or other And what 's th' euent of all Twelue Rods before thee Three or foure times sit for the whole Tribunall Exhibite Circean Games make publike feasts And for these idle outward things sayes he Would'st thou lay on such cost toile spend thy spirits And to be voide of perturbation For constancie sleepe when thou would'st haue sleepe Wake when thou would'st wake feare nought vexe for nought No paines wilt thou bestow no cost no thought Ren. What should I say as good consort with you As with an Angell I could heare you euer Cler. Well in my Lord and spend time with my Sister And keepe her from the Field with all endeauour The Souldiers loue her so and shee so madly Would take my apprehension if it chance That bloud would flow in riuers Ren. Heauen forbid And all with honour your arriuall speede Exit Enter Messenger with two Souldiers like Lackies Mess. Here are two Lackies sir haue message to you Cler. What is your message and from whom my friends 1 From the Lieutenant Colonell and the Captaines Who sent vs to informe you that the Battailes Stand ready rang'd expecting but your presence To be their honor'd signall when to ioyne And we are charg'd to runne by and attend you Cler. I come I pray you see my running horse Brought to the backe-gate to mee Mess. Instantly Exit Mess. Cler. Chance what can chance mee well or ill is equall In my acceptance since I ioy in neyther But goe with sway of all the world together In all successes Fortune and the day To mee alike are I am fixt be shee Neuer so fickle and will there repose Farre past the reach of any Dye she throwes Ex. cum Pediss Finis Actus tertij Actus quarti Scaena prima Alarum within Excursions ouer thee Stage The Lackies running Maillard following them Mail. VIllaines not hold him when ye had him downe 1 Who can hold lightning Sdeath a man as well Might catch a Canon Bullet in his mouth And spit it in your hands as take and hold him Mail. Pursue enclose him stand or fall on him And yee may take him Sdeath they make him guards Exit Alarum still and enter Chalon Chal. Stand Cowards stand strike send your bullets at him 1 Wee came to entertaine him sir for honour 2 Did ye not say so Chal. Slaues hee is a traitor Command the horse troopes to ouer-runne the traitor Exit Showts within Alarum still and Chambers shot off Then enter Aumall Aum. What spirit breathes thus in this more then man Turnes flesh to ayre possest and in a storme Teares men about the field like Autumne leaues He turnd wilde lightning in the Lackies hands Who though their sodaine violent twitch vnhorst him Yet when he bore himselfe their saucie fingers Flew as too hot off as hee had beene fire The ambush then made in through all whose force Hee draue as if a fierce and fire giuen Canon Had spit his iron vomit out amongst them The Battailes then in two halfe-moones enclos'd him In which he shew'd as if he were the light And they but earth who wondring what hee was Shruncke their steele hornes and gaue him glorious passe And as a great shot from a towne besieg'd At foes before it flyes forth blacke and roring But they too farre and that with waight opprest As if disdaining earth doth onely grasse Strike earth and vp againe into the ayre Againe sinkes to it and againe doth rise And keepes such strength that when it softliest moues It piece-meale shiuers any let it proues So flew braue Clermont forth till breath forsooke him Then fell to earth and yet sweet man euen then His spirits conuulsions made him bound againe Past
Cler. It hath enough t was grac'd with truth in one To 'th other falshood and confusion Leade to 'th Court sir Bal. You I le leade no more It was to ominous and foule before Exeunt Finis Actus quarti Actus quinti Scaena prima Ascendit Vmbra Bussi Vmb. VP from the Chaos of eternall night To vvhich the whole digestion of the world Is now returning once more I ascend And bide the cold dampe of this piercing ayre To vrge the iustice whose almightie word Measures the bloudy acts of impious men With equall pennance who in th' act it selfe Includes th' infliction which like chained shot Batter together still though as the thunder Seemes by mens duller hearing then their sight To breake a great time after lightning forth Yet both at one time teare the labouring cloud So men thinke pennance of their ils is slow Though th' ill and pennance still together goe Reforme yee ignorant men your manlesse liues Whose lawes yee thinke are nothing but your lusts When leauing but for supposition sake The body of felicitie Religion Set in the midst of Christendome and her head Cleft to her bosome one halfe one vvay swaying Another th' other all the Christian world And all her lawes vvhose obseruation Stands vpon faith aboue the power of reason Leauing I say all these this might suffice To fray yee from your vicious swindge in ill And set you more on fire to doe more good That since the vvorld as vvhich of you denies Stands by proportion all may thence conclude That all the ioynts and nerues sustaining nature As well may breake and yet the vvorld abide As any one good vnrewarded die Or any one ill scape his penaltie The Ghost stands close Enter Guise Clermont Gui. Thus friend thou seest how all good men would thriue Did not the good thou prompt'st me with preuent The iealous ill pursuing them in others But now thy dangers are dispatcht note mine Hast thou not heard of that admired voyce That at the Barricadoes spake to mee No person seene Let 's leade my Lord to Reimes Cler. Nor could you learne the person Guise By no meanes Cler. T was but your fancie then a waking dreame For as in sleepe which bindes both th' outward senses And the sense common to th' imagining power Stird vp by formes hid in the memories store Or by the vapours of o'er-flowing humours In bodies full and foule and mixt vvith spirits Faines many strange miraculous images In which act it so painfully applyes It selfe to those formes that the common sense It actuates with his motion and thereby Those fictions true seeme and haue reall act So in the strength of our conceits awake The cause alike doth of like fictions make Guise Be what it vvill t was a presage of something Waightie and secret vvhich th' aduertisements I haue receiu'd from all parts both vvithout And in this Kingdome as from Rome and Spaine Soccaine and Sauoye giues me cause to thinke All vvriting that our plots Catastrophe For propagation of the Catholique cause Will bloudy proue dissoluing all our counsailes Cler. Retyre then from them all Guise I must not doe so The Arch-Bishop of Lyons tels me plaine I shall be said then to abandon France In so important an occasion And that mine enemies their profit making Of my faint absence soone would let that fall That all my paines did to this height exhale Cler. Let all fall that would rise vnlawfully Make not your forward spirit in vertues right A property for vice by thrusting on Further then all your powers can fetch you off It is enough your will is infinite To all things vertuous and religious Which within limits kept may without danger Let vertue some good from your Graces gather Auarice of all is euer nothings father Vmb. Danger the spurre of all great mindes is euer The curbe to your tame spirits you respect not With all your holinesse of life and learning More then the present like illiterate vulgars Your minde you say kept in your fleshes bounds Showes that mans will must rul'd be by his power When by true doctrine you are taught to liue Rather without the body then within And rather to your God still then your selfe To liue to him is to doe all things fitting His Image in which like himselfe we liue To be his Image is to doe those things That make vs deathlesse which by death is onely Doing those deedes that fit eternitie And those deedes are the perfecting that Iustice That makes the world last which proportion is Of punishment and wreake for euery wrong As well as for right a reward as strong Away then vse the meanes thou hast to right The wrong I suffer'd What corrupted Law Leaues vnperform'd in Kings doe thou supply And be aboue them all in dignitie Exit Guise Why stand'st thou still thus and applyest thine eares And eyes to nothing Cler. Saw you nothing here Guise Thou dream'st awake now what was here to see Cler. My Brothers spirit vrging his reuenge Guise Thy Brothers spirit pray thee mocke me not Cler. No by my loue and seruice Guise Would he rise And not be thundring threates against the Guise Cler. You make amends for enmitie to him With tenne parts more loue and desert of mee And as you make your hate to him no let Of any loue to mee no more beares hee Since you to me supply it hate to you Which reason and which Iustice is perform'd In Spirits tenne parts more then fleshy men To whose fore-sights our acts and thoughts lie open And therefore since hee saw the treacherie Late practis'd by my brother Baligny Hee would not honor his hand with the iustice As hee esteemes it of his blouds reuenge To which my Sister needes would haue him sworne Before she would consent to marry him Guise O Baligny who would beleeue there were A man that onely since his lookes are rais'd Vpwards and haue but sacred heauen in sight Could beare a minde so more then diuellish As for the painted glory of the countenance Flitting in Kings doth good for nought esteeme And the more ill hee does the better seeme Cler. Wee easily may beleeue it since we see In this worlds practise few men better be Iustice to liue doth nought but Iustice neede But Policie must still on mischiefe feede Vntruth for all his ends truths name doth sue in None safely liue but those that study ruine A good man happy is a common good Ill men aduanc'd liue of the common bloud Guise But this thy brothers spirit startles mee These spirits seld or neuer hanting men But some mishap ensues Cler. Ensue what can Tyrants may kill but neuer hurt a man All to his good makes spight of death and hell Enter Aumall Aum. All the desert of good renowne your Highnesse Guise Welcome Aumall Cler. My good friend friendly welcome How tooke my noblest mistresse the chang'd newes Aum. It came too late sir for those loueliest eyes Through
THE REVENGE OF Bussy D'Ambois A TRAGEDIE As it hath beene often presented at the priuate Play-house in the White-Fryers Written By GEORGE CHAPMAN Gentleman LONDON Printed by T. S. and are to be solde by IOHN HELME at his Shop in S. Dunstones Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1613 TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS AND truely Noble Knight Sr. Thomas Howard c. Sir SInce VVorkes of this kinde haue beene lately esteemed worthy the Patronage of some of our worthiest Nobles I haue made no doubt to preferre this of mine to your vndoubted Vertue and exceeding true Noblesse as contayning matter no lesse deseruing your reading and excitation to Heroycall life then any such late Dedication Nor haue the greatest Princes of Italie and other Countries conceiued it any least diminution to their greatnesse to haue their Names wing'd with these Tragicke Plumes and disperst by way of Patronage through the most Noble Notices of Europe Howsoeuer therefore in the Scaenicall presentation it might meete with some maligners yet considering euen therein it past with approbation of more worthy iudgements the Ballance of their side especially being held by your impartiall hand I hope will to no graine abide the out-weighing And for the autenticall truth of eyther person or action who worth the respecting will expect it in a Poeme whose subiect is not truth but things like truth Poore enuious soules they are that cauill at truths want in these naturall fictions materiall instruction elegant and sententious excitation to Vertue and deflection from her contrary being the soule lims and limits of an autenticall Tragedie But whatsoeuer merit of your full countenance and fauour suffers defect in this I shall soone supply with some other of more generall account wherein your right vertuous Name made famous and preserued to posteritie your future comfort and honour in your present acceptation and loue of all vertuous and diuine expression may be so much past others of your Rancke encreast as they are short of your Iudiciall Ingenuitie in their due estimation For howsoeuer those Ignoble and sowrebrow'd VVorldlings are carelesse of whatsoeuer future or present opinion spreads of them yet with the most diuine Philosopher if Scripture did not confirme it I make it matter of my Faith that we truely retaine an intellectuall feeling of Good or Bad after this life proportionably answerable to the loue or neglect we beare here to all Vertue and truely-humane Instruction In whose fauour and honour I wish you most eminent And rest euer Your true Vertues most true obseruer Geo. Chapman The Actors names HEnry the King Monsieur his Brother Guise D. Renel a Marquesse Mont sureau an Earle Baligny Lord Lieutenant Clermont D' Ambois Captaines Maillard Challon Aumal Espernone Soissone Perricot The Guard Souldiers Seruants The ghost of Bussy Monsieur Guise Card Guise Shattilion Countesse of Cambray Tamyra wife to Mont sureau Charlotte wife to Baligny Rioua a Seruant THE REVENGE OF Bussy D'Ambois A TRAGEDIE Actus primi Scaena prima Enter Baligny Renel Baligny TO what will this declining Kingdome turne Swindging in euery license as in this Stupide permission of braue D' Ambois Murther Murther made paralell with Law Murther vs'd To serue the Kingdome giuen by sute to men For their aduancement suffered scarcrow-like To fright adulterie what will policie At length bring vnder his capacitie Rene. All things for as when the high births of Kings Deliuerances and Coronations We celebrate with all the Cities Bels Iangling together in vntun'd confusion All order'd Clockes are tyed vp so when Glory Flatterie and smooth applauses of things ill Vphold th' inordinate swindge of downe-right power Iustice and truth that tell the bounded vse Vertuous and well distinguisht formes of Time Are gag'd and tongue-tide but wee haue obseru'd Rule in more regular motion things most lawfull Were once most royall Kings sought common good Mens manly liberties though ne'er so meane And had their owne swindge so more free and more But when pride enter'd them and Rule by power All browes that smil'd beneath them frown'd hearts grieu'd By imitation vertue quite was vanisht And all men studi'd selfe-loue fraud and vice Then no man could be good but he was punisht Tyrants being still more fearefull of the good Then of the bad their subiects vertues euer Manag'd with curbs and dangers and esteem'd As shadowes and detractions to their owne Bal. Now all is peace no danger now what followes Idlenesse rusts vs since no vertuous labour Ends ought rewarded Ease Securitie Now all the Palme weares wee made warre before So to preuent warre men with giuing gifts More then receiuing made our Countrey strong Our matchlesse race of Souldiers then would spend In publike warres not priuate brawles their spirits In daring Enemies arm'd with meanest armes Not courting strumpets and consuming birth-rights In Apishnesse and enuy of attire No labour then was harsh no way so deepe No rocke so steepe but if a Bird could scale it Vp would our youth flie to A Foe in armes Stirr'd vp a much more lust of his encounter Then of a Mistresse neuer so be-painted Ambition then was onely scaling walles And ouer-topping turrets Fame was wealth Best parts best deedes were best Nobilitie Honour with worth and wealth well got or none Countries we wonne with as few men as Countries Vertue subdu'd all Ren. Iust and then our Nobles Lou'd vertue so they prais'd and vs'd it to Had rather doe then say their owne deedes hearing By others glorified then be so barraine That their parts onely stood in praising others Bal. Who could not doe yet prais'd and enui'd not Ciuile behauiour flourisht Bountie flow'd Auarice to vpland Boores slaues hang-men banisht Ren. T is now quite otherwise but to note the cause Of all these foule digressions and reuolts From our first natures this t is in a word Since good Arts faile crafts and deceits are vs'd Men ignorant are idle idle men Most practise what they most may doe with ease Fashion and fauour all their studies ayming At getting money which no wise man euer Fed his desires with Bal. Yet now none are wise That thinke not heauens true foolish weigh'd with that Well thou most worthy to be greatest Guise Make with thy greatnesse a new world arise Such deprest Nobles followers of his As you my selfe my Lord will finde a time When to reuenge your wrongs Ren. I make no doubt In meane time I could wish the wrong were righted Of your slaine Brother in law braue Bussy D' Ambois Bal. That one accident was made my charge My Brother Bussy's Sister now my wife By no suite would consent to satisfie My loue of her with marriage till I vow'd To vse my vtmost to reuenge my Brother But Clermont D' Ambois Bussy's second Brother Had since his apparition and excitement To suffer none but his hand in his wreake Which hee hath vow'd and so will needes acquite Me of my vow made to my wife his Sister And vndertake himselfe Bussy's reuenge Yet loathing
reade it Exit Tamy. Ren. This was a sleight well-maskt O what is man Vnlesse he be a Politician Exit Finis Actus primi Actus secundi Scaena prima Henry Baligny Hen. COme Baligny we now are priuate Say What seruice bring'st thou make it short the Guise Whose friend thou seem'st is now in Court and neare And may obserue vs Bal. This sir then in short The faction of the Guise with which my policie For seruice to your Highnesse seemes to ioyne Growes ripe and must be gather'd into hold Of which my Brother Clermont being a part Exceeding capitall deserues to haue A capitall eye on him And as you may With best aduantage and your speediest charge Command his apprehension which because The Court you know is strong in his defence Wee must aske Country swindge and open fields And therefore I haue wrought him to goe downe To Cambray with me of which Gouernment Your Highnesse bountie made mee your Lieutenant Where when I haue him I will leaue my house And faine some seruice out about the confines When in the meane time if you please to giue Command to my Lieutenant by your Letters To traine him to some muster where he may Much to his honour see for him your forces Put into Battaile when hee comes hee may With some close stratageme be apprehended For otherwise your whole powers there will faile To worke his apprehension and with that My hand needes neuer be discern'd therein Hen. Thankes honest Baligny Bal. Your Highnesse knowes I will be honest and betray for you Brother and Father for I know my Lord Treacherie for Kings is truest Loyaltie Nor is to beare the name of Treacherie But graue deepe Policie All acts that seeme Ill in particular respects are good As they respect your vniuersall Rule As in the maine sway of the vniuerse The supreame Rectors generall decrees To guard the mightie Globes of Earth and Heauen Since they make good that guard to preseruation Of both those in their order and first end No mans particular as hee thinkes wrong Must hold him wrong'd no not though all mens reasons All Law all conscience concludes it wrong Nor is comparison a flatterer To liken you here to the King of kings Nor any mans particular offence Against the worlds sway to offence at yours In any subiect who as little may Grudge at their particular wrong if so it seeme For th' vniuersall right of your estate As being a Subiect of the Worlds whole sway As well as yours and being a righteous man To whom Heauen promises defence and blessing Brought to decay disgrace and quite defencelesse Hee may complaine of Heauen for wrong to him Hen. T is true the Simile at all parts holds As all good Subiects hold that loue our fauour Bal. Which is our Heauen here and a miserie Incomparable and most truely Hellish To liue depriu'd of our Kings grace and countenance Without which best conditions are most cursed Life of that nature howsoeuer short Is a most lingering and tedious life Or rather no life but a languishing And an abuse of life Hen. T is well conceited Bal. I thought it not amisse to yeeld your Highnesse A reason of my speeches lest perhaps You might conceiue I flatter'd which I know Of all ils vnder heauen you most abhorre Hen. Still thou art right my vertuous Baligny For which I thanke and loue thee Thy aduise I le not forget Haste to thy Gouernment And carry D'Ambois with thee So farewell Exit Bal. Your Maiestie fare euer like it selfe Enter Guise Guise My sure Friend Baligny Bal. Noblest of Princes Guise How stands the State of Cambray Bal. Strong my Lord And fit for seruice for whose readinesse Your creature Clermont D'Ambois and my selfe Ride shortly downe Guise That Clermont is my loue France neuer bred a nobler Gentleman For all parts he exceedes his Brother Bussy Bal. I my Lord Guise Farre because besides his valour Hee hath the crowne of man and all his parts Which Learning is and that so true and vertuous That it giues power to doe as well as say What euer fits a most accomplisht man Which Bussy for his valours season lackt And so was rapt with outrage oftentimes Beyond Decorum where this absolute Clermont Though onely for his naturall zeale to right Hee will be fiery when hee sees it crost And in defence of it yet when he lists Hee can containe that fire as hid in Embers Bal. No question hee 's a true learn'd Gentleman Guise He is as true as Tides or any Starre Is in his motion And for his rare learning Hee is not as all else are that seeke knowledge Of taste so much deprau'd that they had rather Delight and satisfie themselues to drinke Of the streame troubled wandring ne'er so farre From the cleare fount then of the fount it selfe In all Romes Brutus is reuiu'd in him Whom hee of industry doth imitate Or rather as great Troys Euphorbus was After Pithagoras so is Brutus Clermont And were not Brutus a Conspirator Bal. Conspirator my Lord Doth that empaire him Caesar beganne to tyrannize and when vertue Nor the religion of the Gods could serue To curbe the insolence of his proud Lawes Brutus would be the Gods iust instrument What said the Princesse sweet Antigone In the graue Greeke Tragedian when the question Twixt her and Creon is for lawes of Kings Which when he vrges shee replies on him Though his Lawes were a Kings they were not Gods Nor would shee value Creons written Lawes With Gods vnwrit Edicts since they last not This day and the next but euery day and euer Where Kings Lawes alter euery day and houre And in that change imply a bounded power Guise Well let vs leaue these vaine disputings what Is to be done and fall to doing something When are you for your Gouernment in Cambray Bal. When you command my Lord Guise Nay that 's not fit Continue your designements with the King With all your seruice onely if I send Respect me as your friend and loue my Clermont Bal. Your Highnesse knowes my vowes Guise I t is enough Exit Guise Manet Bal. Bal. Thus must wee play on both sides and thus harten In any ill those men whose good wee hate Kings may doe what they list and for Kings Subiects Eyther exempt from censure or exception For as no mans worth can be iustly iudg'd But when he shines in some authoritie So no authoritie should suffer censure But by a man of more authoritie Great vessels into lesse are emptied neuer There 's a redoundance past their continent euer These virtuosi are the poorest creatures For looke how Spinners weaue out of themselues Webs whose strange matter none before can see So these out of an vnseene good in vertue Make arguments of right and comfort in her That clothe them like the poore web of a Spinner Enter Clermont Cler. Now to my Challenge What 's the place the weapon Bal. Soft sir let first your
dispute more vp and see th' euent Exeunt Ladyes Make the Guard sure Renel and then the doores Command to make fast when the Earle is in Exit Ren. The blacke soft-footed houre is now on wing Which for my iust wreake Ghosts shall celebrate With dances dire and of infernall state Exit Enter Guise Guise Who sayes that death is naturall vvhen nature Is with the onely thought of it dismaid I haue had Lotteries set vp for my death And I haue drawne beneath my trencher one Knit in my hand-kerchiefe another lot The word being Y' are a dead man if you enter And these words this imperfect bloud and flesh Shrincke at in spight of me their solidst part Melting like snow within mee with colde fire I hate my selfe that seeking to rule Kings I cannot curbe my slaue Would any spirit Free manly Princely wish to liue to be Commanded by this masse of slauerie Since Reason Iudgement Resolution And scorne of what we feare will yeeld to feare While this same sincke of sensualitie swels Who would liue sinking in it and not spring Vp to the Starres and leaue this carrion here For Wolfes and Vultures and for Dogges to teare O Clermont D'Ambois wert thou here to chide This softnesse from my flesh farre as my reason Farre as my resolution not to stirre One foote out of the way for death and hell Let my false man by falshood perish here There 's no way else to set my true man cleere Enter Messenger Mess. The King desires your Grace to come to Councill Guise I come It cannot be hee will not dare To touch me with a treacherie so prophane Would Clermont now were here to try how hee Would lay about him if this plot should be Here would be tossing soules into the skie Who euer knew bloud sau'd by treacherie Well I must on and will what should I feare Not against two Alcides against two And Hercules to friend the Guise will goe He takes vp the Arras and the Guard enters vpon him hee drawes Guise Holde murtherers They strike him downe So then this is confidence In greatnes not in goodnes wher is the king The king comes in sight with Es. Sois others Let him appeare to iustifie his deede In spight of my betrai'd wounds ere my soule Take her flight through them and my tongue hath strength To vrge his tyrannie Hen. See sir I am come To iustifie it before men and God Who knowes with what wounds in my heart for woe Of your so wounded faith I made these wounds Forc't to it by an insolence of force To stirre a stone nor is a rocke oppos'd To all the billowes of the churlish sea More beate and eaten with them then was I With your ambitious mad Idolatrie And this bloud I shed is to saue the bloud Of many thousands Guise That 's your white pretext But you will finde one drop of bloud shed lawlesse Will be the fountaine to a purple sea The present lust and shift made for Kings liues Against the pure forme and iust power of Law Will thriue like shifters purchases there hangs A blacke Starre in the skies to which the Sunne Giues yet no light will raine a poyson'd shower Into your entrailes that will make you feele How little safetie lies in treacherous steele Hen. Well sir I le beare it y'haue a Brother to Bursts with like threates the skarlet Cardinall Seeke and lay hands on him and take this hence Their blouds for all you on my conscience Exit Guise So sir your full swindge take mine death hath curb'd Clermont farewell O didst thou see but this But it is better see by this the Ice Broke to thine owne bloud which thou wilt despise When thou hear'st mine shed Is there no friend here Will beare my loue to him Aum. I will my Lord Guise Thankes with my last breath recommend me then To the most worthy of the race of men Dyes Exeunt Enter Monts and Tamyra Mont. Who haue you let into my house Tam. I none Mont. T is false I sauour the rancke bloud of foes In euery corner Tam. That you may doe well It is the bloud you lately shed you smell Mont. Sdeath the vault opes The gulfe opens Tam. What vault hold your sword Clermont ascends Cler. No let him vse it Mont. Treason murther murther Cler. Exclaime not t is in vaine and base in you Being one to onely one Mont. O bloudy strumpet Cler. With what bloud charge you her it may be mine As well as yours there shall not any else Enter or touch you I conferre no guards Nor imitate the murtherous course you tooke But single here will haue my former challenge Now answer'd single not a minute more My brothers bloud shall stay for his reuenge If I can act it if not mine shall adde A double conquest to you that alone Put it to fortune now and vse no ods Storme not nor beate your selfe thus gainst the dores Like to a sauage vermine in a trap All dores are sure made and you cannot scape But by your valour Mont. No no come and kill mee Cler. If you will die so like a beast you shall But when the spirit of a man may saue you Doe not so shame man and a Noble man Mont. I doe not show this basenesse that I feare thee But to preuent and shame thy victory Which of one base is base and so I le die Cler. Here then Mon. Stay hold one thought hath harden'd me He starts vp And since I must afford thee victorie It shall be great and braue if one request Thou wilt admit mee Cler. What 's that Mont. Giue me leaue To fetch and vse the sword thy Brother gaue mee When he was brauely giuing vp his life Cler. No I le not fight against my brothers sword Not that I feare it but since t is a tricke For you to show your backe Mont. By all truth no Take but my honourable othe I will not Cler. Your honourable othe plaine truth no place has Where othes are honourable Tam. Trust not his othe Hee will lie like a Lapwing when shee flyes Farre from her sought nest still here t is shee cryes Mont. Out on thee damme of Diuels I will quite Disgrace thy braues conquest die not fight Lyes downe Tam. Out on my fortune to wed such an abiect Now is the peoples voyce the voyce of God Hee that to wound a vvoman vants so much As hee did mee a man dares neuer touch Cler. Reuenge your wounds now madame I resigne him Vp to your full vvill since hee will not fight First you shall torture him as hee did you And Iustice wils and then pay I my vow Here take this Ponyard Mont. Sinke Earth open Heauen And let fall vengeance Tam. Come sir good sir hold him Mont. O shame of women whither art thou fled Cler. Why good my Lord is it a greater shame For her then you come I will be the bands You vs'd to her prophaning her