which a soule look't so diuinely louing Teares nothing vttering her distresse enough She wept quite out and like two falling Starres Their dearest sights quite vanisht with her teares Cler. All good forbid it Guise What euents are these Cler. All must be borne my Lord and yet this chance Would willingly enforce a man to cast off All power to beare with comfort since hee sees In this our comforts made our miseries Guise How strangely thou art lou'd of both the sexes Yet thou lou'st neyther but the good of both Cler. In loue of women my affection first Takes fire out of the fraile parts of my bloud Which till I haue enioy'd is passionate Like other louers but fruition past I then loue out of iudgement the desert Of her I loue still sticking in my heart Though the desire and the delight be gone Which must chance still since the comparison Made vpon tryall twixt what reason loues And what affection makes in mee the best Euer preferd what most loue valuing lest Guise Thy loue being iudgement then and of the minde Marry thy worthiest mistresse now being blinde Cler. If there were loue in mariage so I would But I denie that any man doth loue Affecting vviues maides widowes any women For neither Flyes loue milke although they drowne In greedy search thereof nor doth the Bee Loue honey though the labour of her life Is spent in gathering it nor those that fat Or beasts or fowles doe any thing therein For any loue for as when onely nature Moues men to meate as farre as her power rules Shee doth it with a temperate appetite The too much men deuoure abhorring nature And in our most health is our most disease So when humanitie rules men and vvomen T is for societie confinde in reason But what excites the beds desire in bloud By no meanes iustly can be construed loue For when loue kindles any knowing spirit It ends in vertue and effects diuine And is in friendship chaste and masculine Guise Thou shalt my Mistresse be me thinkes my bloud Is taken vp to all loue vvith thy vertues And howsoeuer other men despise These Paradoxes strange and too precise Since they hold on the right way of our reason I could attend them euer Come away Performe thy brothers thus importun'd wreake And I will see what great affaires the King Hath to employ my counsell which he seemes Much to desire and more and more esteemes Exit Enter Henry Baligny with sixe of the guard Hen. Saw you his sawcie forcing of my hand To D'Ambois freedome Bal. Saw and through mine eyes Let fire into my heart that burn'd to beare An insolence so Giantly austere Hen. The more Kings beare at Subiects hands the more Their lingring Iustice gathers that resembles The waightie and the goodly-bodied Eagle Who being on earth before her shady wings Can raise her into ayre a mightie way Close by the ground she runnes but being aloft All shee commands she flyes at and the more Death in her Seres beares the more time shee stayes Her thundry stoope from that on which shee preyes Bal. You must be then more secret in the waight Of these your shadie counsels who will else Beare where such sparkes flye as the Guise and D'Ambois Pouder about them Counsels as your entrailes Should be vnpierst and sound kept for not those Whom you discouer you neglect but ope A ruinous passage to your owne best hope Hen. Wee haue Spies set on vs as we on others And therefore they that serue vs must excuse vs If what wee most hold in our hearts take winde Deceit hath eyes that see into the minde But this plot shall be quicker then their twinckling On whose lids Fate with her dead waight shall lie And Confidence that lightens ere she die Friends of my Guard as yee gaue othe to be True to your Soueraigne keepe it manfully Your eyes haue witnest oft th' Ambition That neuer made accesse to me in Guise But Treason euer sparkled in his eyes Which if you free vs of our safetie shall You not our Subiects but our Patrons call Omnes Our duties binde vs hee is now but dead Hen. Wee trust in it and thanke ye Baligny Goe lodge their ambush and thou God that art Fautor of Princes thunder from the skies Beneath his hill of pride this Gyant Guise Exeunt Enter Tamyra with a Letter Charlotte in mans attire Tam. I see y' are Seruant sir to my deare sister The Lady of her lou'd Baligny Char. Madame I am bound to her vertuous bounties For that life which I offer in her vertuous seruice To the reuenge of her renowned brother Tam. She writes to mee as much and much desires That you may be the man whose spirit shee knowes Will cut short off these long and dull delayes Hitherto to bribing the eternall Iustice Which I beleeue since her vnmatched spirit Can iudge of spirits that haue her sulphure in them But I must tell you that I make no doubt Her liuing brother will reuenge her dead On whom the dead impos'd the taske and hee I know will come t' effect it instantly Char. They are but words in him beleeue them not Tam. See this is the vault where he must enter Where now I thinke hee is Enter Renel at the vault with the Countesse being blinde Ren. God saue you Lady What Gentleman is this with whom you trust The deadly waightie secret of this houre Tam. One that your selfe will say I well may trust Ren. Then come vp Madame He helps the Countesse vp See here honour'd Lady A Countesse that in loues mishap doth equall At all parts your wrong'd selfe and is the mistresse Of your slaine seruants brother in whose loue For his late treachrous apprehension She wept her faire eyes from her luory browes And would haue wept her soule out had not I Promist to bring her to this mortall quarrie That by her lost eyes for her seruants loue She might coniure him from this sterne attempt In which by a most ominous dreame shee had Shee knowes his death fixt and that neuer more Out of this place the Sunne shall see him liue Char. I am prouided then to take his place And vndertaking on me Ren. You sir why Char. Since I am charg'd so by my mistresse His mournfull sister Tam. See her Letter sir Hee reades Good Madame I rue your fate more then mine And know not how to order these affaires They stand on such occurrents Ren. This indeede I know to be your Lady mistresse hand And know besides his brother will and must Indure no hand in this reuenge but his Enter Vmbr. Bussy Vmb. Away dispute no more get vp and see Clermont must author this iust Tragedie Coun. Who 's that Ren. The spirit of Bussy Tam. O my seruant let vs embrace Vmb. Forbeare The ayre in which My figures liknesse is imprest will blast Let my reuenge for all loues satisfie In vvhich dame feare not Clermont shall not dye No word
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
any way to giue it act But in the noblest and most manly course If th' Earle dares take it he resolues to send A Challenge to him and my selfe must beare it To which deliuerie I can vse no meanes He is so barricado'd in his house And arm'd with guard still Ren. That meanes lay on mee Which I can strangely make My last lands sale By his great suite stands now on price with him And hee as you know passing couetous With that blinde greedinesse that followes gaine Will cast no danger where her sweet feete tread Besides you know his Lady by his suite Wooing as freshly as when first loue shot His faultlesse arrowes from her rosie eyes Now liues with him againe and shee I know Will ioyne with all helps in her friends reuenge Bal. No doubt my Lord and therefore let me pray you To vse all speede for so on needels points My wifes heart stands with haste of the reuenge Being as you know full of her brothers fire That shee imagines I neglect my vow Keepes off her kinde embraces and still askes When when will this reuenge come when perform'd Will this dull vow be And I vow to Heauen So sternely and so past her sexe she vrges My vowes performance that I almost feare To see her when I haue a while beene absent Not showing her before I speake the bloud She so much thirsts for freckling hands and face Ren. Get you the Challenge writ and looke from me To heare your passage clear'd no long time after Exit Ren. Bal. All restitution to your worthiest Lordship Whose errand I must carrie to the King As hauing sworne my seruice in the search Of all such Malecontents and their designes By seeming one affected with their faction And discontented humours gainst the state Nor doth my brother Clermont scape my counsaile Giuen to the King about his Guisean greatnesse Which as I spice it hath possest the King Knowing his daring spirit of much danger Charg'd in it to his person though my conscience Dare sweare him cleare of any power to be Infected with the least dishonestie Yet that sinceritie wee Politicians Must say growes out of enuie since it cannot Aspire to policies greatnesse and the more We worke on all respects of kinde and vertue The more our seruice to the King seemes great In sparing no good that seemes bad to him And the more bad we make the most of good The more our policie searcheth and our seruice Is wonder'd at for wisedome and sincerenesse T is easie to make good suspected still Where good and God are made but cloakes for ill Enter Henry Monsieur Guise Clerm Espernone Foisson Monsieur taking leaue of the King See Monsieur taking now his leaue for Brabant The Guise his deare Minion Clermont D'Ambois Whispering together not of state affaires I durst lay wagers though the Guise be now In chiefe heate of his faction but of some thing Sauouring of that which all men else despise How to be truely noble truely wise Mors. See how hee hangs vpon the eare of Guise Like to his Iewell Esper. Hee 's now whisp'ring in Some doctrine of stabilitie and freedome Contempt of outward greatnesse and the guises That vulgar great ones make their pride and zeale Being onely seruile traines and sumptuous houses High places offices Mons. Contempt of these Does he read to the Guise T is passing needfull And hee I thinke makes show t' affect his doctrine Esp. Commends admires it Mons. And pursues another T is fine hypocrisie and cheape and vulgar Knowne for a couert practise yet beleeu'd By those abus'd soules that they teach and gouerne No more then Wiues adulteries by their Husbands They bearing it with so vnmou'd aspects Hot comming from it as t were not all Or made by custome nothing This same D'Ambois Hath gotten such opinion of his vertues Holding all learning but an Art to liue well And showing hee hath learn'd it in his life Being thereby strong in his perswading others That this ambitious Guise embracing him Is thought t' mbrace his vertues Esp. Yet in some His vertues are held false for th' others vices For t is more cunning held and much more common To suspect truth then falshood and of both Truth still fares worse as hardly being beleeu'd As t is vnvsuall and rarely knowne Mons. I le part engendring vertue Men affirme Though this same Clermont hath a D'Ambois spirit And breathes his brothers valour yet his temper Is so much past his that you cannot moue him I le try that temper in him Come you two Deuoure each other with your vertues zeale And leaue for other friends no fragment of yee I wonder Guise you will thus rauish him Out of my bosome that first gaue the life His manhood breathes spirit and meanes and luster What doe men thinke of me I pray thee Clermont Once giue me leaue for tryall of that loue That from thy brother Bussy thou inherit'st T' vnclaspe thy bosome Cler. As how sir Mons. Be a true glasse to mee in which I may Behold what thoughts the many headed-beast And thou thy selfe breathes out concerning me My ends and new vpstarted state in Brabant For which I now am bound my higher aymes Imagin'd here in France speake man and let Thy words be borne as naked as thy thoughts O were braue Bussy liuing Cler. Liuing my Lord Mons. T is true thou art his brother but durst thou Haue brau'd the Guise mauger his presence courted His wedded Lady emptied euen the dregs Of his worst thoughts of mee euen to my teeth Discern'd not me his rising soueraigne From any common groome but let me heare My grossest faults as grosse-full as they were Durst thou doe this Cler. I cannot tell A man Does neuer know the goodnesse of his stomacke Till hee sees meate before him Were I dar'd Perhaps as he was I durst doe like him Mons. Dare then to poure out here thy freest soule Of what I am Cler. T is stale he tolde you it Mons. He onely iested spake of splene and enuie Thy soule more learn'd is more ingenuous Searching iudiciall let me then from thee Heare what I am Cler. What but the sole support And most expectant hope of all our France The toward victor of the whole low Countryes Mons. Tush thou wilt sing Encomions of my praise Is this like D'Ambois I must vexe the Guise Or neuer looke to heare free truth tell me For Bussy liues not hee durst anger mee Yet for my loue would not haue fear'd to anger The King himselfe Thou vnderstand'st me dost not Cler. I shall my Lord with studie Mons. Dost vnderstand thy selfe I pray thee tell me Dost neuer search thy thoughts what my designe Might be to entertaine thee and thy brother What turne I meant to serue with you Cler. Euen what you please to thinke Mons. But what thinkst thou Had I no end in 't think'st Cler. I thinke you had Mons. When I tooke in such two as you two
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
not bountie The Merchant for his wealth is swolne in minde When yet the chiefe Lord of it is the Winde Bal. That may so chance to our State-Merchants too Something performed that hath not farre to goe Ren. That 's the maine point my Lord insist on that Bal. But doth this fire rage further hath it taken The tender tynder of my wifes sere bloud Is shee so passionate Ren. So wilde so mad Shee cannot liue and this vnwreakt sustaine The woes are bloudy that in women raigne The Sicile gulfe keepes feare in lesse degree There is no Tyger not more tame then shee Bal. There is no looking home then Ren. Home Medea With all her hearbs charmes thunders lightning Made not her presence and blacke hants more dreadfull Bal. Come to the King if he reforme not all Marke the euent none stand where that must fall Exeunt Enter Countesse Rioua and an Vsher Vsh. Madame a Captaine come from Clermont D'Ambois Desires accesse to you Count. And not himselfe Vsh. No Madame Coun. That 's not vvell Attend him in Exit Vsh. The last houre of his promise now runne out And hee breake some brack in the frame of nature That forceth his breach Enter Vsher and Aumal Aum. Saue your Ladiship Coun. All welcome Come you from my worthy seruant Aum. I Madame and conferre such newes from him Coun. Such newes vvhat newes Aum. Newes that I wish some other had had the charge of Coun. O vvhat charge vvhat newes Aum. Your Ladiship must vse some patience Or else I cannot doe him that desire He vrg'd vvith such affection to your Graces Coun. Doe it for heauens loue doe it if you serue His kinde desires I vvill haue patience Is hee in health Aum. He is Count. Why that 's the ground Of all the good estate wee hold in earth All our ill built vpon that is no more Then wee may beare and should expresse it all Aum. Madame t is onely this his libertie Coun. His libertie Without that health is nothing Why liue I but to aske in doubt of that Is that bereft him Aum. You 'll againe preuent me Coun. No more I sweare I must heare and together Come all my miserie I le hold though I burst Aum. Then madame thus it fares he was enuited By vvay of honour to him to take view Of all the Powers his brother Baligny Hath in his gouernment vvhich rang'd in battailes Maillard Lieutenant to the Gouernour Hauing receiu'd strickt Letters from the King To traine him to the musters and betray him To their supprise which with Chalon in chiefe And other Captaines all the field put hard By his incredible valour for his scape They haplesly and guiltlesly perform'd And to Bastile hee 's now led prisoner Coun. What change is here how are my hopes preuented O my most faithfull seruant thou betraid Will Kings make treason lawfull Is Societie To keepe which onely Kings vvere first ordain'd Lesse broke in breaking faith twixt friend and friend Then twixt the King and Subiect let them feare Kings Presidents in licence lacke no danger Kings are compar'd to Gods and should be like them Full in all right in nought superfluous Nor nothing straining past right for their right Raigne iustly and raigne safely Policie Is but a Guard corrupted and a way Venter'd in Desarts vvithout guide or path Kings punish Subiects errors vvith their owne Kings are like Archers and their Subiects shafts For as when Archers let their arrowes flye They call to them and bid them flye or fall As if t were in the free power of the shaft To flye or fall when onely t is the strength Straight shooting compasse giuen it by the Archer That makes it hit or misse and doing eyther Hee 's to be prais'd or blam'd and not the shaft So Kings to Subiects crying doe doe not this Must to them by their owne examples strength The straightnesse of their acts and equall compasse Giue Subiects power t' obey them in the like Not shoote them forth with faultie ayme and strength And lay the fault in them for flying amisse Aum. But for your seruant I dare sweare him guiltlesse Count. Hee would not for his Kingdome traitor be His Lawes are not so true to him as he O knew I how to free him by way forc'd Through all their armie I would flye and doe it And had I of my courage and resolue But tenne such more they should not all retaine him But I will neuer die before I giue Maillard an hundred slashes with a sword Chalon an hundred breaches with a Pistoll They could not all haue taken Clermont D'Ambois Without their treacherie he had bought his bands out With their slaue blouds but he was credulous Hee would beleeue since he would be beleeu'd Your noblest natures are most credulous Who giues no trust all trust is apt to breake Hate like hell mouth who thinke not what they speake Aum. Well Madame I must tender my attendance On him againe Will 't please you to returne No seruice to him by me Count. Fetch me straight My little Cabinet Exit Ancil T is little tell him And much too little for his matchlesse loue But as in him the worths of many men Are close contracted Intr. Ancil so in this are Iewels Worth many Cabinets Here with this good sir Commend my kindest seruice to my seruant Thanke him with all my comforts and in them With all my life for them all sent from him In his remembrance of mee and true loue And looke you tell him tell him how I lye She kneeles downe at his feete Prostrate at feet of his accurst misfortune Pouring my teares out which shall euer fall Till I haue pour'd for him out eyes and all Aum. O Madame this will kill him comfort you With full assurance of his quicke acquitall Be not so passionate rise cease your teares Coun. Then must my life cease Teares are all the vent My life hath to scape death Teares please me better Then all lifes comforts being the naturall seede Of heartie sorrow As a tree fruit beares Hee raises her and leades her out Exe. So doth an vndissembled sorrow teares Vsh. This might haue beene before and sau'd much charge Exit Enter Henry Guise Baligny Esp. Soisson Pericot with pen inke and paper Guise Now sir I hope you 're much abus'd Eyes see In my word for my Clermont what a villaine Hee was that whisper'd in your iealous eare His owne blacke treason in suggesting Clermonts Colour'd with nothing but being great with mee Signe then this writ for his deliuerie Your hand was neuer vrg'd with worthier boldnesse Come pray sir signe it why should Kings be praid To acts of Iustice t is a reuerence Makes them despis'd and showes they sticke and tyre In what their free powers should be hot as fire Hen. Well take your will sir I le haue mine ere long But wherein is this Clermont such a rare one Guise In his most gentle and vnwearied minde