A
Commedy
of
First
enter
Cambises
the
King
,
Knight
and
Councellor
.
Cambises
.
MY
Counsaile
graue
&
sapient
with
lords
of
legal
train
:
Attentiue
eares
towards
bend
&
mark
what
shal
be
sain
.
So
you
likewise
my
valiant
knight
whose
manly
acts
doth
fly
By
brute
of
fame
the
sounding
trump
dooth
perse
the
azure
sky
.
My
sapient
woords
I
say
perpend
and
so
your
skil
delate
:
You
knowe
that
Mors
vanquished
hath
Cirus
that
king
of
state
And
I
by
due
inheritance
possesse
that
Princely
crown
:
Ruling
by
swoord
of
mightie
force
in
place
of
great
renown
.
You
knowe
and
often
haue
heard
tel
my
fathers
worthy
facts
.
A
manly
Marsis
hart
he
bare
appéering
by
his
acts
.
And
what
?
shall
I
to
ground
let
fall
my
fathers
golden
praise
?
No
,
no
,
I
meane
for
to
attempt
,
this
fame
more
large
to
raise
,
In
that
that
I
his
sonne
succéed
his
kingly
seat
as
due
:
Extend
your
councel
vnto
me
in
that
I
aske
of
you
.
I
am
the
king
of
Persia
,
a
large
and
fertil
soil
:
The
Egiptians
against
vs
repunge
,
as
verlets
slaue
and
vile
.
Therfore
I
meane
with
Marsis
hart
,
with
warres
them
to
frequent
Them
to
subdue
as
captiues
mine
this
is
my
harts
intent
.
So
shall
I
win
honors
delight
,
and
praise
of
me
shall
go
:
My
Councel
speak
,
and
Lordings
eke
,
is
it
not
best
doo
so
?
Councel
.
Oh
pusant
king
,
your
blifful
woordis
,
deserues
abundant
praise
That
you
in
this
doo
go
about
,
your
fathers
same
to
raise
.
Oh
blifful
day
that
king
so
yung
,
such
profit
should
conceiue
:
His
fathers
praise
&
his
to
win
,
from
those
that
would
deceiue
.
Sure
my
true
and
souerain
king
,
I
fall
before
you
prest
:
Answere
to
giue
as
duty
mine
,
in
that
your
grace
request
.
If
that
your
hart
adicted
be
,
the
Egiptians
to
conuince
:
Through
Marsis
and
the
conquest
wun
,
then
déed
of
happy
prince
Shall
pearce
the
skyes
vnto
the
throne
of
the
supernall
seat
:
And
merit
there
a
iust
rewarde
,
of
Iupiter
the
great
.
But
then
your
grace
must
not
turn
back
,
from
this
pretenced
wil
For
to
procéed
in
vertuous
life
,
imploy
indeuour
stil
.
Extinguish
vice
,
and
in
that
cup
,
to
drink
haue
no
delight
.
To
martiall
feats
and
kingly
sporte
,
fix
all
your
whole
delight
.
King.
My
Councel
graue
a
thousand
thanks
,
with
hart
I
doo
you
render
That
you
my
case
so
prosperouse
,
intierly
doo
tender
.
I
wil
not
swarue
from
those
your
steps
,
wherto
you
wold
me
traū
But
now
my
Lord
&
valiant
knight
,
with
woordis
giue
answer
plain
Are
you
content
with
me
to
go
,
the
Marsis
games
to
try
?
Lord
,
Yea
péerlesse
Prince
to
aid
your
grace
,
my self
wil
liue
and
dye
.
Knight
.
And
I
for
my
habilitie
,
for
feare
wil
not
turn
back
:
But
as
the
ship
against
the
rocks
,
sustain
and
bide
the
wrack
.
King.
Oh
willing
harts
,
a
thousand
thanks
I
render
vnto
you
:
Strik
vp
your
drummes
with
courage
great
,
we
wil
march
foorth
euen
now
.
Councel
.
Permit
(
O
king
)
few
woords
to
héer
,
my
duty
serues
no
lesse
:
Therfore
giue
leaue
to
councel
thine
,
his
minde
for
to
expresse
.
King.
Speake
on
my
Councel
what
it
be
,
you
shall
haue
sauour
mine
Councel
.
Then
wil
I
speake
vnto
your
grace
,
as
duty
dooth
me
binde
.
Your
grace
dooth
meane
for
to
attempt
of
war
the
manly
art
:
Your
grace
therin
may
bap
receiue
with
others
for
your
parte
.
The
dent
of
death
in
those
affaires
,
all
persons
are
alike
:
The
hart
couragious
often
times
,
his
detryment
dooth
séek
.
It
s
best
therfore
for
to
permit
,
a
Ruler
of
your
land
:
To
sit
and
iudge
with
equitie
,
when
things
of
right
are
scand
.
King.
My
grace
dooth
yéeld
to
this
your
talk
,
to
be
thus
now
it
shall
:
My
Knight
therfore
prepare
your self
,
Sisamnes
for
to
call
.
A
Iudge
he
is
of
prudent
skil
,
euen
he
shall
beare
the
sway
:
In
absence
mine
,
when
from
the
land
I
doo
departe
my
way
.
knight
.
Your
Knight
befor
your
grace
euen
héer
,
him self
hath
redy
prest
:
With
willing
hart
for
to
fulfil
as
your
grace
made
request
.
Exit
.
Councel
.
Pleaseth
your
grace
I
iudge
of
him
to
be
a
man
right
fit
:
For
he
is
learned
in
the
Law
hauing
the
gift
of
wit
.
In
your
graces
presinct
,
I
doo
not
view
for
it
a
méeter
man
:
His
learning
is
of
good
effect
.
bring
proof
therof
I
can
.
I
doo
not
knowe
what
is
his
life
,
his
conscience
hid
from
me
:
I
dout
not
but
the
feare
of
God
,
before
his
eyes
to
be
.
Lord.
Reporte
declares
,
he
is
a
man
that
to
him self
is
nye
:
One
that
fauoureth
much
the
world
,
and
to
much
sets
therby
.
But
this
I
say
of
certaintie
,
if
he
your
grace
succeed
:
In
your
absence
but
for
a
while
,
he
wil
be
warnd
indéed
:
No
iniustice
for
to
frequent
,
no
partiall
Judge
to
prooue
:
But
rule
all
things
with
equitie
,
to
win
your
graces
looue
.
King.
Of
that
he
shall
a
warning
haue
,
my
heasts
for
to
obay
:
Great
punishment
for
his
offence
against
him
wil
I
lay
.
Councel
.
Beholde
I
sée
him
now
agresse
and
enter
into
place
:
Sisamnes
.
Oh
puisant
Prince
&
mightie
king
,
the
gods
preserue
your
grace
.
Your
graces
message
came
to
me
,
your
wil
purporting
foorth
:
With
grateful
minde
I
it
receiued
,
according
to
mine
othe
.
Erecting
then
myself
with
spéed
,
before
your
graces
eyes
:
The
tenor
of
your
Princely
wil
,
from
you
for
to
agnise
.
King.
Sisamnes
,
this
the
whole
effect
,
the
which
for
you
I
sent
:
Our
minde
it
is
to
eleuate
,
you
to
great
preferment
▪
My
grace
and
gratious
councel
eke
hath
chose
you
for
this
cause
:
In
iudgment
you
doo
office
beare
,
which
haue
the
skil
in
lawes
,
We
think
that
you
accordingly
,
by
Iustice
rule
wil
deale
:
that
for
offence
none
shall
haue
cause
(
of
wrong
)
you
to
appeale
.
Sisamnes
.
Abundant
thanks
vnto
your
grace
for
this
benignitie
:
To
you
his
councel
in
like
case
,
with
Lords
of
clemency
.
What
so
your
grace
to
me
permits
,
if
I
therin
offend
:
Such
erecution
then
commence
,
and
vse
it
to
this
end
.
That
all
other
(
by
that
my
déed
)
example
so
may
take
:
To
admonish
them
to
flée
the
same
,
by
fear
it
may
them
make
.
King.
Then
according
to
your
woords
,
if
you
therin
offend
:
I
assure
you
euen
from
my
brest
,
correction
shall
extend
,
From
Persra
I
meane
to
go
into
the
Egipt
land
:
Them
to
conuince
by
force
of
armes
,
and
win
the
vpper
hand
.
While
I
therfore
absent
shal
be
,
I
doo
you
ful
permit
:
As
gouernour
in
this
my
right
,
in
that
estate
to
sit
.
For
to
detect
and
eke
correct
,
those
that
abuse
my
grace
:
This
is
the
totall
of
my
wil
,
giue
answere
in
this
case
.
Sisamnes
.
Vnworthy
much
(
O
prince
)
am
I
,
and
for
this
gift
vnfit
:
But
sith
that
it
hath
pleasd
your
grace
,
that
I
in
it
must
sit
.
I
doo
auouch
vnto
my
death
,
according
to
my
skil
:
With
equitie
for
to
obserue
,
your
graces
minde
and
wil.
And
nought
from
it
to
swarue
indéed
,
but
sincerely
to
stay
:
Els
let
me
taste
the
penaltie
,
as
I
before
did
say
.
King
,
Wel
then
of
this
authoritie
,
I
giue
you
you
ful
possession
:
Sisamnes
.
And
I
wil
it
fulfil
also
,
as
I
haue
made
profession
.
King.
By
councel
,
then
let
vs
departe
,
a
finall
stay
to
make
:
To
Egit
land
now
foorth
with
spéed
,
my
voiage
I
wil
take
.
Strike
vp
your
drummes
vs
to
reioyce
,
to
hear
the
warlike
sound
Stay
you
héer
Sisamnes
Iudge
,
and
looke
wel
to
your
bound
.
¶
Exeunt
King
,
Lord
and
Councel
.
Sisamnes
.
Euen
now
the
King
hath
me
extolde
,
and
set
me
vp
aloft
.
Now
may
I
were
the
brodered
garde
and
lye
in
down
bed
soft
.
Now
may
I
purchase
house
and
land
,
and
haue
all
at
my
wil
:
Now
may
I
build
a
princely
place
,
my
minde
for
to
fulfil
.
Now
may
I
abrogate
the
Law
,
as
I
shall
think
it
good
:
If
any
one
me
now
offend
,
I
may
demaund
his
blood
.
According
to
the
Prouerb
olde
,
my
mouth
I
wil
vp
make
:
Now
it
dooth
lye
all
in
my
hand
,
to
leaue
or
els
to
take
.
To
deale
with
Iustice
to
my
bound
,
and
so
to
liue
in
hope
:
But
oftentimes
the
birds
be
gone
,
while
one
for
nest
dooth
grope
.
Doo
wel
or
il
,
I
dare
auouch
,
some
euil
on
me
wil
speake
:
No
truely
yet
I
doo
not
meane
,
the
kings
precepte
to
breake
,
To
place
I
meane
for
to
return
my
duty
to
fulfil
.
Exit
.
¶
Enter
the
Vice
with
an
olde
Capcase
on
his
hed
,
an
olde
pail
about
his
hips
for
harnes
,
a
Scūmer
&
a
potlid
by
his
side
&
a
rake
on
his
shhulder
.
¶
Ambidexter
.
Stand
away
,
stand
away
for
the
passion
of
God
,
Harnessed
I
am
prepared
to
the
feeld
:
I
would
haue
been
content
at
home
to
haue
bod
,
But
I
am
sent
foorth
with
my
speare
and
shéeld
.
Enter
three
Russians
,
Huf
,
Ruf
and
Snuf
singing
.
Huf
,
Gogs
flesh
and
his
wounds
these
warres
reioyce
my
hart
:
By
his
wounds
I
hope
to
doo
wel
for
my
parte
.
By
Gods
hart
the
world
shall
go
euil
if
I
doo
not
shift
:
At
some
olde
Carles
bouget
I
meane
for
to
lift
.
Ruf.
By
his
Flesh
,
nose
,
Eyes
and
Eares
,
I
wil
venter
void
of
all
cares
.
He
is
not
a
Souldier
that
dooth
feare
any
dout
:
If
that
he
would
bring
his
purpose
about
.
Snuf
.
Feare
that
feare
list
,
it
shall
not
be
I
:
By
Gogs
wounds
I
wil
make
some
neck
stand
awry
.
If
I
lose
my
share
,
I
sweare
by
Gogs
hart
:
Then
let
an
other
take
vp
my
parte
.
Huf.
Yet
I
hope
to
come
the
richest
Souldier
away
:
Ruf.
If
a
man
aske
ye
,
ye
may
hap
to
say
nay
.
Snuf
.
If
a
man
aske
ye
,
ye
may
hap
to
say
nay
.
Snuf
.
Let
all
men
get
what
they
can
,
not
to
léese
I
hope
:
Where
soeuer
I
go
in
eche
corner
I
wil
grope
.
Ambidexter
.
What
&
ye
run
into
the
Corner
of
some
prety
maid
?
Snuf
.
To
grope
there
good
fellow
I
wil
not
be
a
fraid
.
Huf.
Gogs
wounds
what
art
thou
that
with
vs
doost
mel
?
Thou
séemest
to
be
a
Souldier
the
trueth
to
tel
,
Thou
séemest
to
be
harnessed
.
I
cannot
tel
how
:
I
think
he
came
lately
from
riding
some
Cow.
Such
a
deformed
slaue
did
I
neuer
see
:
Ruf
doost
thou
knowe
him
?
I
pray
thée
tel
mée
.
Ruf.
No
by
my
troth
fellow
Huf
I
neuer
sée
him
before
.
Snuf
.
As
for
me
I
care
not
if
I
neuer
sée
him
more
.
Come
let
vs
run
his
Arse
against
the
poste
:
A
ye
:
slaues
,
I
wil
be
with
you
at
the
ofts
.
heer
let
him
swinge
them
ahout
.
A
ye
knaues
,
I
wil
teach
ye
how
ye
shal
me
deride
,
Out
of
my
sight
I
can
ye
not
abide
.
Now
goodman
pouchmouth
I
am
a
slaue
with
you
:
Now
haue
at
ye
a
fresh
again
euen
now
.
Mine
Arsse
against
the
poste
you
wil
run
:
But
I
wil
make
ye
from
that
saying
to
turn
.
Huf.
I
beséech
ye
hartely
to
be
content
:
Ruf.
I
insure
you
by
mine
honesty
no
hurt
we
ment
.
Beside
that
again
we
doo
not
knowe
what
ye
are
:
Ye
knowe
that
Souldiers
their
stoutnes
wil
declare
,
Therfore
if
we
haue
any
thing
offended
:
Pardon
our
rudenes
and
it
shal
be
amended
.
Ambidexter
.
Yea
Gods
pitie
,
begin
ye
to
intreate
me
?
Haue
at
ye
once
again
by
the
masse
I
wil
beat
ye
.
Huf.
fight
again
Gogs
hart
let
vs
kil
him
,
suffer
no
longer
:
Snuf
.
Draw
their
swords
.
Thou
slaue
we
wil
sée
if
thou
be
the
strongar
.
Ruf.
Strike
of
his
hed
at
one
blowe
:
〈◊〉
we
be
Souldiers
,
Gogs
hart
let
him
knowe
.
Ambidexter
.
O
the
passion
of
God
,
I
haue
doon
by
mine
honesty
:
I
wil
take
your
parte
héeraster
verily
.
All.
Then
content
let
vs
agree
:
Ambidexter
.
Shake
hands
with
me
,
I
shake
hands
with
thée
.
Ye
are
ful
of
curtesye
,
that
is
the
best
:
And
you
take
great
pain
,
ye
are
a
mannerly
gest
.
Why
maisters
doo
you
not
knowe
me
?
the
trueth
to
me
tel
:
All.
No
trust
vs
,
not
very
wel
.
Ambidexter
.
Why
I
am
Ambidexter
who
many
souldiers
doo
loue
Huf.
Gogs
hart
to
haue
thy
company
néeds
we
must
prooue
.
We
must
play
with
bothe
hands
with
our
hostes
&
host
Play
with
bothe
hands
and
score
on
the
poste
.
Now
and
then
with
our
Captain
for
many
a
delay
?
We
wil
not
stick
with
bothe
hands
to
play
.
Ambidexter
.
The
honester
man
ye
,
ye
may
me
trust
.
¶
Enter
Meretrix
with
a
staf
on
her
shoulder
.
Meretrix
.
What
?
is
there
no
lads
heer
that
hath
a
lust
:
To
haue
a
passing
Trul
to
help
at
their
néed
?
Huf
,
Gogs
hart
she
is
come
indéed
.
What
mistres
Meretrix
by
his
wounds
welcome
to
me
:
Meretrix
.
What
wil
ye
giue
me
I
pray
you
let
me
sée
?
Ruf.
By
his
hart
she
lookes
for
gifts
by
and
by
.
Meretrix
.
What
maister
Ruf
,
I
cry
you
mercy
.
The
last
time
I
was
with
you
I
got
a
broken
hed
.
And
lay
in
the
stréet
all
night
for
want
of
a
bed
.
Snuf
.
Gogs
wounds
kisse
me
my
Trul
so
white
:
In
thee
I
sweare
is
all
my
delight
.
If
thou
shouldest
haue
had
a
broken
bed
for
my
sake
:
I
would
haue
made
his
hed
to
ake
.
Meretrix
.
What
maister
Ambidexter
,
who
looked
for
you
?
Ambidexter
.
Mistres
Meretrix
I
thought
not
to
see
you
héer
now
.
There
is
no
remedy
at
meeting
I
must
haue
a
kisse
:
Meretrix
,
What
man
?
I
wil
not
stick
for
that
by
gisse
.
Kisse
Ambidexter
,
So
now
gramercy
,
I
pray
thée
be
gone
:
Meretrix
.
Nay
soft
my
fréend
I
meane
to
haue
one
.
Nay
soft
I
swere
,
and
if
ye
were
my
brother
:
Before
I
let
go
I
wil
haue
an
other
.
kisse
,
kisse
,
kisse
.
Ruf.
Gogs
hart
the
whore
would
not
kisse
me
yet
:
Meretrix
.
If
I
be
a
whore
.
thou
art
a
knaue
then
it
is
quit
.
Huf
,
But
hearst
thou
Meretrix
,
with
who
this
night
wilt
the
lyee
Meretrix
.
With
him
that
giueth
the
moste
monye
.
Huf.
Gogs
hart
,
I
haue
no
money
in
pursse
,
ne
yet
in
clout
:
Meretrix
.
Then
get
thée
hence
and
pack
like
a
Lout
.
Huf.
Adieu
like
a
Whore.
Ezit
Huf
,
Meretrix
.
Farwel
like
a
knaue
.
Ruf.
Gogs
Nailes
,
Mistres
Meretrix
now
he
is
gone
:
A
match
ye
shall
make
straight
with
me
:
I
wil
giue
thee
sixpence
to
lye
one
night
with
thée
.
Meretrix
.
Gogs
hart
slaue
doost
thou
think
I
am
a
six
peny
Iug
:
No
wis
ye
Iack
I
look
a
little
more
smug
.
snuf
.
I
wil
giue
her
xviij
.
pnce
to
serue
me
first
:
Meretrix
Gramercy
Snuf
,
thou
art
not
the
wurst
.
Ruf.
By
Gogs
hart
she
were
better
be
hanged
,
to
forsake
me
and
take
this
Snuf
.
Were
she
so
?
that
shall
we
sée
.
Ruf
,
By
Gogs
hart
my
Dagger
into
her
I
wil
thrust
.
Snuf
.
A
ye
boy
,
ye
would
doo
it
and
ye
durst
.
Ambidexter
,
Peace
my
maisters
ye
shall
not
fight
:
He
that
drawes
first
I
wil
him
smite
.
Ruf.
Gogs
wounds
Maister
Snuf
are
ye
so
lusty
?
snuf
.
Gogs
sides
maister
Ruf
are
ye
so
crusty
?
Ruf.
You
may
happen
to
sée
:
Snuf
,
Doo
what
thou
darest
to
me
.
Heere
draw
and
fight
.
¶
Heere
she
must
lay
on
and
coyle
them
bothe
,
the
Vice
must
run
his
way
for
feare
,
snuf
fling
down
his
swoord
and
buckler
,
and
run
his
way
.
Meretrix
.
Gogs
sides
knaues
,
séeing
to
fight
ye
be
so
rough
Defend
your selues
for
I
wil
giue
ye
bothe
inough
.
I
wil
teach
ye
how
ye
shall
fall
out
for
me
:
Yea
thou
slaue
Snuf
,
no
more
blowes
wilt
thou
bide
?
To
take
thy
héeles
a
time
haste
thou
spied
?
Thou
Villain
séeing
Snuf
is
gone
away
:
A
little
better
I
meane
thée
to
pay
.
¶
He
falleth
down
,
she
falleth
vpon
him
and
beat
him
and
taketh
away
his
weapon
,
Ruf.
Alas
good
mistres
Meretrix
no
more
:
My
legs
,
sides
,
and
armes
with
beating
be
sore
.
Meretrix
.
Thou
a
Souldier
and
loose
thy
weapon
?
Go
hence
Sir
boy
.
say
a
woman
hath
thée
beaten
.
Ruf.
Good
Mistres
Meretrix
my
weapon
let
me
haue
:
Take
pitie
on
me
mine
honestie
to
saue
.
If
it
be
knowen
this
repulle
I
sustain
:
It
wil
redound
to
my
ignomy
and
shame
.
Meretrix
.
If
thou
will
be
my
man
and
wait
vpon
mée
:
This
Swoord
and
Buckler
I
wil
giue
thee
.
Ruf.
I
wil
doo
all
at
your
commaundement
:
As
seruant
to
you
I
wil
be
obedient
Meretrix
.
Then
let
me
sée
how
before
me
ye
can
go
:
When
I
speake
to
you
ye
shall
doo
so
.
Of
with
your
cap
at
place
and
at
boord
:
Forsooth
mistres
Meretrix
at
euery
woord
.
Tut
,
tut
,
in
the
Camp
such
Souldiers
there
be
:
One
good
woman
would
beat
a
way
two
or
thrée
.
Wel
I
am
sure
Customers
tary
at
home
:
Manerly
before
and
let
vs
be
gone
.
Exeunt
.
Enter
Ambidex
.
Ambidexter
.
O
the
passion
of
God
,
be
they
héer
stil
or
no
?
I
durst
not
abide
to
sée
her
heat
them
so
.
I
may
say
to
you
I
was
in
such
a
flight
:
Body
of
me
I
sée
the
heare
of
my
hed
stand
vpright
.
When
I
saw
her
so
hard
vpon
them
lay
on
:
O
the
passion
of
God
thought
I
,
she
wil
be
with
me
anon
I
made
no
more
a
doo
but
auoided
the
thrust
:
And
to
my
legges
began
for
to
trust
.
And
fel
a
laughing
to
my self
when
I
was
once
gone
:
It
is
wisdome
(
quoth
I
)
by
the
masse
to
saue
one
.
Then
into
this
place
I
intended
to
trudge
:
Thinking
to
meet
Sisamnes
the
Iudge
.
Beholde
where
he
commeth
I
wil
him
méet
:
And
like
a
gentleman
I
meane
him
to
gréet
Sisamnes
.
Enter
Sisamnes
.
Since
that
the
Kings
graces
maiestie
in
office
did
me
set
:
What
abundance
of
welth
to
me
might
I
get
.
Now
&
then
some
vantage
I
atchiue
,
much
more
yet
may
I
take
:
But
that
I
fear
vnto
the
king
,
that
some
,
complaint
wil
make
Ambidexter
.
Iesu
maister
Sisamnes
you
are
vnwise
.
Sisamnes
.
Why
so
?
I
pray
ye
let
me
agnise
.
What
maister
Ambidexter
,
is
it
you
?
Now
welcome
to
me
I
make
God
avow
.
Ambidexter
.
Iesu
maister
Sisamnes
with
me
you
are
wel
acquainted
:
By
me
rulers
may
be
trimly
painted
.
Ye
are
vnwise
if
ye
take
not
time
while
ye
may
:
If
ye
wil
not
now
when
ye
would
ye
shall
haue
nay
.
What
is
he
that
of
you
dare
make
exclamation
:
Of
your
wrong
dealing
to
make
explication
?
Can
you
not
play
with
bothe
hands
and
turn
with
the
winde
?
Sisamnes
.
Beléeue
me
your
woords
draw
déep
in
my
minde
.
In
colloure
wise
vnto
this
day
to
bribes
I
haue
inclyned
:
More
the
same
for
to
frequent
of
trueth
I
am
now
minded
.
Beholde
euen
now
vnto
me
Suters
doo
procéed
.
Small
habilitie
.
I
beséech
you
héer
good
maister
iudge
,
a
poor
mans
cause
to
téder
Condemne
me
not
in
wrongful
wise
,
that
neuer
was
offender
.
You
knowe
right
wel
my
right
it
is
,
I
haue
not
for
to
giue
:
You
take
away
from
me
my
due
,
that
should
my
corps
reléeue
.
The
Commons
of
you
doo
complain
,
from
them
you
deuocate
:
with
anguish
great
&
greeuous
words
,
their
harts
doo
penetrate
.
The
right
you
sel
vnto
the
wrong
,
your
priuate
gain
to
win
:
You
violate
the
simple
man
,
and
count
it
for
no
sin
:
Sisamnes
,
Holde
thy
tung
thou
pratling
knaue
,
and
giue
to
me
reward
Els
in
this
wise
I
tel
thée
trueth
,
thy
tale
wil
not
be
heard
.
Ambidexter
,
let
vs
go
hence
,
and
let
the
knaue
alone
.
Ambidexter
Farwel
Small
habilitis
for
help
now
get
ye
none
.
Bribes
hath
corrupt
him
,
good
Lawes
to
pollute
:
Exeunt
.
small
habillitie
.
A
naughtie
man
that
wil
not
obay
the
Kings
constitute
.
with
heuy
hart
I
wil
return
til
Ged
redresse
my
pain
.
Exit
.
Shame
.
Enter
shame
with
a
trump
black
From
among
the
grisly
gosts
I
come
,
from
tirants
testy
train
.
Vnséemly
shame
of
sooth
I
am
procured
to
make
plain
,
The
odious
facts
&
shamelesse
dée
vs
that
Cambises
king
dooth
vse
.
All
pietie
and
vertuouse
life
,
he
dooth
it
clene
refuse
.
Lechery
and
drunkennes
,
he
dooth
it
much
frequent
:
The
Tigers
kinde
to
immitate
,
he
hath
giuen
ful
consent
.
He
nought
estéemes
his
councel
graue
,
ne
vertuous
briging
vp
But
dayly
stil
receiues
the
drink
,
of
damned
vices
cup.
He
can
bide
no
instruction
,
he
takes
so
great
delight
:
In
working
of
iniquitie
,
for
to
frequent
his
spight
.
As
Fame
dooth
sound
the
royall
trump
of
worthy
men
and
frim
:
So
shame
dooth
blowe
w
strained
blast
,
the
trump
of
shame
on
him
.
¶
Enter
the
king
,
Lord
,
Praxaspes
,
and
Sisamnes
.
(
Exit
.
King
,
My
Iudge
since
my
departure
hence
,
haue
you
vsed
Iudgement
right
?
If
faithful
stuard
I
ye
finde
,
the
same
I
wil
requite
.
Sisamnes
.
No
dout
your
grace
shall
not
once
hear
,
that
I
haue
doon
a
mis.
Praxaspes
.
I
much
reioyce
to
heare
,
so
good
newes
as
this
.
Commons
cry
.
Enter
commons
cry
running
in
speak
this
verse
,
go
out
again
hastely
.
Alas
,
alas
,
how
are
the
Commons
oppressed
,
By
that
vile
Iudge
Sisamnes
by
name
?
I
doo
not
knowe
how
it
should
be
redressed
.
To
amend
his
life
no
whit
he
dooth
frame
.
We
are
vndoon
and
thrown
out
of
doore
,
His
damnable
dealing
dooth
vs
so
torment
:
At
his
hand
we
can
finde
no
reléef
nor
succoure
,
God
graunt
him
grace
for
to
repent
.
Run
away
crying
king
.
What
doleful
cryes
be
these
my
lord
,
that
sound
doo
in
mine
eare
?
Intelligence
if
you
can
giut
,
vnto
your
king
declare
.
To
me
it
séemeth
my
Commons
all
,
they
doo
lament
&
cry
:
Out
of
Sisamnes
Iudge
moste
chéef
,
euen
now
standing
vs
by
.
Praxaspes
.
Euen
so
(
O
king
)
it
séemd
to
me
,
as
you
rehersall
made
:
I
dout
the
Iudge
culpable
be
,
in
some
respect
or
trade
.
Sisamnes
,
Redouted
king
haue
no
mistrust
,
no
whit
your
minde
dismay
:
There
is
not
one
that
can
me
charge
or
ought
against
me
lay
¶
Enter
Commons
complaint
with
Proof
&
Triall
.
Commons
complaint
.
Commons
complaint
I
represent
,
with
thrall
of
dolful
state
:
By
vrgent
cause
erected
foorth
,
my
gréef
for
to
dilate
.
Vnto
the
king
I
wil
prepare
,
my
misery
to
tell
To
haue
reléef
of
this
my
gréef
,
and
fettered
feet
so
fel.
Redouted
Prince
&
mightie
King
,
my self
I
prostrate
héer
Vouchsafe
(
O
King
)
with
me
to
beare
,
for
this
that
I
appéer
.
With
humble
sute
I
pardon
craue
,
of
〈◊〉
moste
royall
grace
To
giue
me
leaue
my
minde
to
breke
,
before
you
in
this
place
King.
Commons
complaint
kéep
nothing
back
,
foar
not
thy
tale
to
tel
What
ere
he
be
within
this
land
,
that
hath
not
vsed
thee
wel
.
As
Princes
mouth
shall
sentence
giue
,
he
shall
receiue
the
same
Vnfolde
the
secrets
of
thy
brest
,
for
I
extinguish
blame
.
Commons
complaint
.
God
preserue
your
royall
grace
,
and
send
you
blisful
dayes
:
That
all
your
déeds
might
stil
accord
,
to
giue
the
God
the
praise
.
My
complaint
is
(
O
mightie
king
)
against
that
Iudge
you
by
:
Whose
careles
déeds
,
gain
to
receiue
,
hath
made
the
commons
cry
He
,
by
taking
bribes
and
gifts
,
the
poore
he
dooth
oppresse
:
Taking
rebeef
from
Infants
yung
,
widowes
and
fatherlesse
.
King.
Vntrustful
traitor
&
corrupt
Iudge
,
how
likest
thou
this
complaint
Forewarning
I
to
thée
did
giue
,
of
this
to
make
restraint
.
And
hast
thou
doon
this
diuelish
dée
,
mine
ire
for
to
augment
?
I
sentence
giue
,
thou
Iudas
iudge
,
thou
shalt
thy
déed
repent
.
Sisamnes
.
O
pusant
Prince
it
is
not
so
,
his
complaint
I
deny
:
Commons
complaint
.
If
it
be
not
so
(
moste
mightie
King
)
in
place
then
let
me
dye
Beholde
that
I
haue
brought
wine
,
bothe
Proof
&
I
ryall
true
To
stand
euen
heer
and
sentence
giue
,
what
by
him
did
insue
.
Proof
.
I
Proof
doo
him
in
this
appeal
,
he
did
the
Commons
wrong
:
Vniustly
he
will
them
hath
delt
,
his
gréedy
was
so
strong
.
His
hart
did
couet
in
to
get
,
be
cared
not
which
way
:
The
poor
did
léese
their
due
and
right
,
because
they
want
to
pay
Vnto
him
for
bribes
indéed
,
this
was
his
wunted
vse
:
wheras
you
grace
good
lawes
did
make
,
he
did
the
same
abuse
.
Tryall
.
I
Tryall
héerto
verify
,
what
Proof
dooth
now
vnfolde
:
To
stand
against
him
in
his
wrong
,
as
now
I
dare
be
bolde
.
king
.
How
likest
the
this
,
thou
caitiue
vile
,
canst
thou
the
same
deny
?
Sisamnes
.
O
noble
king
forgiue
my
fact
,
I
yéeld
to
thy
mercy
.
king
.
Complaints
and
Proof
,
redresse
wil
I
,
all
this
your
misery
:
Departe
with
speed
from
whence
you
came
,
&
straight
commaund
by
me
The
Execution
man
to
come
,
before
my
grace
with
haste
.
All.
For
to
fulfil
this
your
request
,
no
time
we
meane
to
waste
.
king
.
Exeunt
they
three
.
My
Lord
,
before
my
grace
go
call
,
Otian
this
Iudges
Sonne
:
And
he
shall
heare
and
also
sée
:
what
his
father
hath
doon
.
The
Father
he
shall
suffer
death
,
the
Sonne
his
roume
succéed
And
if
that
he
no
better
prooue
,
so
likewise
shall
he
spéed
.
Praxaspes
.
As
your
grace
hath
commaundment
giuen
,
I
meane
for
to
fulfil
:
King.
step
aside
&
fetch
him
.
Accursed
Judge
couldst
thou
consent
,
to
doo
this
cursed
il
?
According
vnto
thy
dentaund
,
thou
shalt
for
this
thy
gilt
:
Receiue
thy
death
before
mine
eyes
,
thy
blood
it
shal
be
spilt
.
Praxaspes
.
Beholde
(
O
King
)
Sisamnes
Sonne
,
before
you
dooth
appéere
.
king
.
Otian
this
is
my
minde
,
therfore
to
me
come
néer
.
Thy
father
heer
for
Iudgment
wrong
procured
hath
his
death
:
And
thou
his
sonne
shalt
him
succéed
,
when
he
hath
lost
his
breth
And
if
that
thou
doost
once
offend
,
as
thou
séest
thy
father
haue
:
In
likewise
thou
shalt
suffer
death
,
no
mercy
shall
thée
saue
.
Otian
.
O
mightie
King
,
vouchsafe
your
grace
,
my
father
to
remit
:
Forgiue
his
fault
,
his
pardon
I
doo
aske
of
your
as
yet
.
Alas
although
my
father
hath
your
Princely
hart
offended
:
Amends
for
misse
he
wil
now
make
▪
&
faults
shal
be
amended
.
In
sted
of
his
requested
life
,
pleaseth
your
grace
take
mine
:
This
offer
I
as
tender
Childe
,
so
duty
dooth
me
binde
.
king
.
Doo
not
intreat
my
grace
no
more
,
for
he
shall
dye
the
death
,
Where
is
the
Execution
man
,
him
to
bercaue
of
breath
.
Execution
.
Enter
Execution
.
At
hand
and
if
it
like
your
grace
,
my
duty
to
dispatch
:
In
hope
that
I
when
déed
is
doon
,
a
good
rewarde
shall
catch
.
King.
Dispatch
w
swoord
this
Iudges
life
,
extinguish
fear
and
cares
:
So
doon
,
draw
thou
his
cursed
skin
,
strait
ouer
bothe
his
eares
.
I
wil
sée
the
office
doon
,
and
that
before
mine
eyes
.
Execution
To
doo
the
thing
my
king
commaunds
,
I
giue
the
enterprise
.
Sisamnes
.
Otian
my
sonne
the
king
to
death
(
by
law
hath
me
condemned
And
you
in
roume
and
office
mine
,
his
graces
wil
hath
placed
.
Vse
Iustice
therfore
in
this
case
,
and
yéeld
vnto
no
wrong
:
Lest
thou
doo
purchase
the
like
death
,
or
euer
it
be
long
.
Otian
.
O
father
déer
,
these
words
to
hear
,
that
you
must
dye
by
force
Bedewes
my
chéeks
w
stilled
teares
,
the
King
hath
no
remorce
.
the
gréeudus
gréefꝭ
&
strained
sighes
,
my
hart
doth
breke
in
twain
And
I
deplore
moste
woful
childe
,
that
I
should
sée
you
slain
.
O
false
and
fickle
frowning
Danie
,
that
turneth
as
the
winde
:
Is
this
the
ioy
in
fathers
age
,
thou
me
assignest
to
finde
?
O
dole
ful
day
,
vnhappy
houre
,
that
loouing
childe
should
sée
:
His
Father
déer
before
his
face
,
thus
put
to
death
should
bée
.
Yet
Father
giue
me
blessing
thine
,
and
let
me
once
imbrace
:
Thy
comely
corps
in
foulded
armes
,
&
kisse
thy
ancient
face
.
Sisamnes
,
O
childe
thou
makes
mine
eyes
to
run
,
as
riuers
doo
by
streme
:
My
leaue
I
take
of
thee
my
Sonne
beware
of
this
my
beame
.
king
.
Dispatch
euen
now
thou
man
of
death
,
no
longer
séeme
to
stay
:
Execution
.
Come
M.
Sisamnes
,
came
on
your
way
,
my
office
I
must
pay
.
Forgiue
therfore
my
déed
.
Sisamnes
.
I
doo
forgiue
it
thée
my
fréend
,
dispatch
therfore
with
spéed
.
smite
him
in
the
neck
with
a
swoord
to
signify
his
death
Praxaspes
.
Beholde
(
O
king
)
how
he
dooth
bléed
,
béeing
of
life
bereft
:
King.
In
this
wise
,
he
shall
not
yet
be
left
.
Pul
his
skin
ouer
his
eares
,
to
make
his
death
more
vile
:
A
wretch
he
was
,
a
cruel
théef
my
commons
to
begile
.
Flea
him
with
a
false
skin
.
Otian
.
What
childe
is
he
of
natures
mould
,
could
bide
the
same
to
sée
His
Father
fleaed
in
this
wise
?
Oh
how
it
gréeueth
me
.
King.
Otian
,
thou
séest
thy
father
dead
,
and
thou
art
in
his
roume
:
if
thou
béest
proud
as
be
hath
béen
,
euen
therto
shalt
thou
come
.
Otian
.
O
King
,
to
me
this
is
a
glasse
,
with
gréef
in
it
I
view
:
Example
that
vnto
your
grace
,
I
doo
not
prooue
vntrue
.
Praxaspes
.
Otian
,
conuay
your
Father
hence
,
to
Tomb
where
be
shall
lye
Otian
.
And
if
it
please
your
Lordship
,
if
shall
be
doon
by
and
by
.
Good
Execution
man
for
néed
,
help
me
with
him
away
:
Execution
.
I
will
fulfil
,
as
you
to
me
did
say
.
They
take
him
away
King.
My
Lord
now
that
my
grace
hath
séen
,
that
finisht
is
this
déed
,
To
question
mine
giue
tentiue
eare
,
&
answere
make
w
speed
.
Haue
not
I
doon
a
gratious
déed
,
to
redresse
my
commons
wo
?
Praxaspes
.
Yea
truely
if
it
please
your
grace
,
ye
haue
indéed
doon
so
.
But
now
(
O
King
)
in
fréendly
wise
,
I
councel
you
in
this
:
Certain
vices
for
to
leaue
,
that
in
you
placed
is
.
The
vise
of
drunkennes
(
Oh
king
)
which
dooth
you
sore
infect
:
With
other
great
abuses
,
which
I
wish
you
to
detect
.
King.
Peace
my
Lord
,
what
néedeth
this
?
of
this
I
wil
not
hear
,
To
Pallaice
now
I
wil
return
,
and
there
to
make
good
chéer
.
God
Baccus
he
bestowes
his
giftis
,
we
haue
good
store
of
wine
:
And
also
that
the
Ladyes
be
,
both
passing
braue
and
fine
.
But
stay
,
I
sée
a
Lord
now
come
,
and
eke
a
valiant
knight
:
What
newes
my
Lord
?
to
sée
you
héer
my
hart
it
dooth
delight
¶
Enter
Lord
,
and
Knight
to
meet
the
King.
Lord.
Nonewes
(
O
king
)
but
of
duty
come
,
to
wait
vpon
your
grace
:
King.
I
thank
you
my
Lord
&
loouing
knight
,
I
pray
ye
with
me
trace
My
Lords
and
Knight
I
pray
ye
tel
,
I
wil
not
be
offended
:
Am
I
worthy
of
any
crime
once
to
be
reprehended
?
Praxaspes
.
The
Persians
much
praise
your
grace
,
but
one
thing
discōmēd
:
In
that
to
Wine
subiect
you
be
,
wherin
you
doo
offend
.
Sith
that
the
might
of
wines
effect
,
dooth
oft
subdue
your
brain
My
councel
is
to
please
their
harts
,
from
it
you
would
refrain
.
Lord.
No
,
no
,
my
Lord
,
it
is
not
so
,
for
this
of
Prince
they
tel
:
For
vertuous
proof
and
Princely
facts
,
Cirus
he
dooth
excel
.
By
that
his
grace
by
conquest
great
,
the
Egiptians
did
conuince
Of
him
reporte
abrode
dooth
passe
,
to
be
a
worthy
Prince
.
knight
.
In
person
of
Cresus
I
answer
make
,
we
may
not
his
grace
compare
in
whole
respect
for
to
be
like
,
Cirus
the
kings
father
.
In
so
much
your
grace
hath
yet
no
childe
,
as
Cirus
left
behinde
Euen
you
I
meane
,
Cambises
king
,
in
whome
I
fauour
finde
.
King
,
Cresus
said
wel
in
saying
so
,
but
Praxaspes
tel
me
why
:
That
to
my
mouth
in
such
a
sort
,
thou
should
auouch
a
lye
.
Of
drunkennes
me
thus
to
charge
,
but
thou
with
spéed
shalt
sée
Whether
that
I
a
sober
King
,
or
els
a
drunkard
bée
.
I
knowe
thou
haste
a
blisful
babe
,
wherin
thou
doost
delight
:
Me
to
reuenge
of
these
thy
woords
,
I
wil
go
wreke
this
spight
.
When
I
the
moste
haue
tasted
wine
,
my
Bowe
it
shal
be
bent
At
hart
of
him
euen
then
to
shoot
,
is
now
my
whole
intent
.
And
if
that
I
his
hart
can
hit
,
the
King
no
drunkard
is
:
It
hart
of
his
I
doo
not
kil
,
I
yéeld
to
thée
in
this
.
Therfore
Praxaspes
fetch
to
me
,
thy
yungest
sonne
with
spéed
:
There
is
no
way
I
tel
thee
plain
,
but
I
wil
doo
this
déed
.
Praxaspes
.
Redouted
Prince
spare
my
sweet
Childe
,
he
is
mine
only
ioy
:
I
trust
your
grace
to
Infants
hart
,
no
such
thing
wil
imploy
.
If
that
his
mother
hear
of
this
,
she
is
so
nigh
her
flight
:
In
clay
her
corps
wil
soon
be
shrinde
,
to
passe
from
worlds
delight
King.
No
more
adoo
,
go
fetch
me
him
,
it
shal
be
as
I
say
:
And
if
that
I
doo
speak
the
woord
,
how
dare
ye
once
say
nay
?
Praxaspes
I
wil
go
fetch
him
to
your
grace
,
but
so
I
trust
it
shall
not
be
:
king
.
For
feare
of
my
displeasure
great
,
go
fetch
him
vnto
me
.
Is
he
gone
?
now
by
the
Gods
I
wil
doo
as
I
say
:
My
Lord
therfore
fil
me
some
wine
,
I
hartely
you
pray
.
For
I
must
drink
to
make
my
brain
somwhat
intoxicate
:
When
that
the
wine
is
in
my
hed
,
oh
trimly
I
can
prate
.
Lord.
Héere
is
the
cup
with
filled
wine
,
therof
to
take
repaste
:
King.
Giue
it
me
to
drink
it
of
,
and
sée
no
wine
be
waste
.
Drink
Once
again
in
large
this
Cup
,
for
I
must
taste
it
stil
:
Drink
By
the
Gods
I
think
of
pleasant
wine
,
I
cannot
take
my
fil
.
Now
drink
is
in
giue
me
my
bowe
,
and
arrowes
from
sir
Knight
At
hart
of
Childe
I
meane
to
shoot
,
hoping
to
cleue
it
right
.
knight
.
Beholde
(
O
King
)
wher
he
dooth
come
,
his
infant
yung
in
hand
Praxaspes
.
O
mightie
King
your
grace
behest
,
with
sorow
I
haue
scand
.
And
brought
my
Childe
fro
mothers
knée
,
before
you
to
appeer
:
And
she
therof
no
whit
dooth
knowe
that
he
in
place
is
héer
.
king
.
Set
him
vp
my
mark
to
be
,
I
wil
shoot
at
his
hart
:
Praxaspes
.
I
beséech
your
grace
not
so
to
doo
,
set
this
pretence
a
parte
.
Farewel
my
déer
and
loouing
babe
,
come
kisse
thy
father
déer
:
A
gréeuous
sight
to
me
it
is
,
to
sée
thée
slain
euen
héer
.
Is
this
the
gain
now
from
the
King
for
giuing
councel
good
:
Before
my
face
with
such
despight
,
to
spil
my
sonnes
hart
blood
?
O
heuy
day
to
me
this
is
,
and
mother
in
like
case
.
Yung
childe
O
Father
,
Father
,
wipe
your
face
.
I
sée
the
teares
run
from
your
eye
:
My
mother
is
at
home
sowing
of
a
band
:
Alas
déer
father
,
why
doo
you
cry
?
King
,
Before
me
as
mark
now
let
him
stand
,
I
wil
shoot
at
him
my
minde
to
fulfil
Yung
childe
.
Alas
,
alas
,
Father
wil
you
me
kil
?
Good
master
king
doo
not
shoot
at
me
,
my
mother
looues
me
best
of
all
king
I
haue
dispatched
him
,
down
he
dooth
fall
,
Shoot
As
right
as
a
line
his
hart
I
haue
hit
:
Nay
thou
shalt
sée
Praxaspes
,
straunger
newes
yet
.
My
Knight
with
spéed
his
hart
cut
out
,
and
giue
it
vnto
me
.
knight
.
It
shal
be
doon
(
O
mightie
king
)
with
all
seleritie
.
Lord.
My
Lord
Praxaspes
,
this
had
not
béen
,
but
your
tung
must
be
walking
To
the
King
of
correction
,
you
must
néeds
be
talking
.
Praxaspes
No
correction
(
my
Lord
)
but
councel
for
the
best
:
knight
.
Héere
is
the
hart
,
according
to
your
graces
behest
.
king
.
Beholde
Praxaspes
thy
Sonnes
owne
hart
,
Oh
how
wel
the
same
was
hit
After
this
wine
to
doo
this
déed
,
I
thought
it
very
fit
.
Estéeme
thou
maist
right
wel
therby
,
no
drunkard
is
the
king
:
That
in
the
midst
of
all
his
cups
,
could
doo
this
valiant
thing
.
My
Lord
and
knight
on
me
attend
,
to
Pallaice
we
wil
go
:
And
leaue
him
héer
to
take
his
sonne
,
when
we
are
gone
him
fro
.
All.
With
all
our
harts
we
giue
consent
,
to
wait
vpon
your
grace
:
Praxaspes
A
woful
man
(
O
Lord
)
am
I
,
to
see
him
in
this
case
.
My
dayes
I
déem
desires
their
end
,
this
déed
wil
help
me
hence
:
To
haue
the
blossoms
of
my
féeld
,
destroyd
by
violence
.
Mother
.
Enter
Mother
Alas
,
Alas
I
doo
heare
tel
,
the
King
hath
kild
my
Sonne
:
If
it
be
so
,
wo
worth
the
déed
,
that
euer
it
was
doon
.
It
is
euen
so
,
my
Lord
I
see
,
how
by
him
he
dooth
wéep
What
ment
I
that
from
hands
of
him
,
this
childe
I
did
not
kéep
?
Alas
husband
and
Lord
,
what
did
you
meane
,
to
fetch
this
Child
away
?
Praxaspes
.
O
Lady
wife
I
little
thought
for
to
háue
séen
this
day
.
Mother
.
O
blisful
babe
,
O
ioy
of
womb
,
harts
comfort
and
delight
:
For
Councel
giuen
vnto
the
King
,
is
this
thy
iust
requite
?
O
heuy
day
and
doleful
time
,
these
mourning
tunes
to
make
With
blubred
eyes
into
mine
armes
,
from
earth
I
wil
thee
take
.
And
wrap
thée
in
mine
apron
white
,
but
oh
my
heuy
hart
:
The
spightful
pangs
that
it
sustains
,
wold
make
it
in
two
to
part
.
The
death
of
this
my
Sonne
to
sée
,
O
heuy
mother
now
?
That
from
thy
swéet
and
sugred
ioy
,
to
sorow
so
shouldst
bow
,
What
gréef
in
womb
did
I
retain
,
before
I
did
thée
sée
?
Yet
at
the
last
when
smart
was
gone
,
what
ioy
wert
thou
to
mée
How
tender
was
I
of
thy
food
,
for
to
preserue
thy
state
?
How
stilled
I
thy
tender
hart
,
at
times
earely
and
late
?
With
veluet
Papꝭ
I
gaue
thée
suck
with
issue
from
my
brest
:
And
daunced
thée
,
vpon
my
knee
,
to
bring
thée
vnto
rest
.
Is
this
the
ioy
of
thée
I
reap
(
O
king
)
of
Tigers
brood
?
Oh
tigers
whelp
hadst
thou
the
hart
,
to
sée
this
childes
hart
blood
?
Nature
inforseth
me
alas
,
in
this
wise
to
deplore
:
To
wring
my
hands
O
wele
away
,
that
I
should
sée
this
houre
.
Thy
mother
yet
wil
kisse
thy
lips
,
silk
soft
and
pleasant
white
:
With
wringing
hands
,
lamenting
for
to
sée
thee
in
this
plight
.
My
Lording
deer
let
vs
go
home
,
our
mourning
to
augment
:
Praxaspes
.
My
Lady
déer
with
heuy
hart
,
to
it
I
doo
consent
.
Betwéen
vs
bothe
the
childe
to
bere
vnto
our
lordly
place
,
Exeunt
¶
Enter
Ambidexter
.
Ambidexter
In
déed
as
ye
say
I
haue
béen
absent
a
long
space
.
But
is
not
my
cosin
Cutpurse
,
w
you
in
the
mene
time
?
To
it
,
to
it
Cosin
and
doo
your
office
fine
.
How
like
you
Sisamnes
for
vsing
of
me
?
He
plaid
with
bothe
hands
,
but
he
sped
il
fauouredly
.
The
King
him self
was
godly
vp
trained
:
He
professed
vertue
,
but
I
think
it
was
fained
.
He
playes
with
bothe
hands
good
déeds
and
il
:
But
it
was
no
good
déed
,
Praxaspes
sonne
for
to
kil
.
As
he
for
the
good
déed
,
on
the
Iudge
was
commended
:
For
all
his
déeds
els
he
is
reprehended
.
The
moste
euil
disposed
person
,
that
euer
was
:
All
the
state
of
his
life
he
would
not
let
passe
.
Some
good
déeds
he
wil
doo
,
though
they
be
but
few
:
The
like
things
this
tirant
Cambices
dooth
shew
.
No
goodnes
from
him
,
to
none
is
exhibited
:
But
stil
malediction
,
abrode
is
distributed
.
And
yet
ye
shall
sée
in
the
rest
of
his
race
:
What
infamy
he
wil
woork
against
his
owne
grace
.
Whist
,
no
more
woords
héer
comes
the
kings
brother
.
Enter
Lord
Smirdis
with
Attendance
&
Diligence
.
Smirdis
.
The
Kings
brother
by
birth
am
I
,
issued
from
Cirus
loynes
:
A
gréef
to
me
it
is
to
hear
,
of
this
the
kings
repines
.
I
like
not
wel
of
those
his
déeds
,
that
he
dooth
stil
frequent
:
I
wish
to
God
that
other
waies
,
his
minde
he
could
content
.
Yung
I
am
and
next
to
him
,
no
mo
of
vs
there
be
:
I
would
be
glad
a
quiet
Realme
in
this
his
reign
to
sée
.
Attendance
.
My
Lord
your
good
awilling
hart
,
the
Gods
wil
recompence
:
In
that
your
made
so
pensife
is
,
for
those
his
great
offence
.
My
Lord
,
his
grace
shall
haue
a
time
to
pair
and
to
amend
:
Happy
is
he
that
can
escape
,
and
not
his
grace
offend
.
Diligence
.
If
that
wicked
vice
he
could
refrain
,
from
wasting
wine
forbere
A
moderate
life
he
would
frequent
,
amending
this
his
square
.
Ambidexter
.
My
Lord
,
and
if
your
honor
it
shall
please
:
I
can
informe
you
what
is
best
for
your
ease
.
Let
him
alone
of
his
déeds
doo
not
talke
:
Then
by
his
side
:
ye
may
quietly
walke
.
After
his
death
you
shal
be
King
:
Then
may
you
reforme
eche
kinde
of
thing
.
In
the
meane
time
liue
quietly
,
doo
not
with
him
deale
:
So
shall
it
redownd
much
to
your
weale
.
Smirdis
.
Thou
saist
true
my
fréend
,
that
is
the
best
:
I
knowe
not
whether
he
looue
me
,
or
doo
me
detest
.
Attendance
.
Leane
from
his
company
,
all
that
you
may
:
I
faithful
Attendance
wil
your
honor
obay
.
If
against
your
honor
he
take
any
ire
:
His
grace
is
as
like
,
to
kindle
his
fire
.
To
your
honors
destruction
,
as
otherwise
:
Diligence
.
Therfore
my
Lord
take
good
aduise
.
And
I
Diligence
,
your
case
wil
so
tender
:
That
to
his
grace
your
honor
shal
be
none
offender
.
Smirdis
.
I
thank
you
bothe
intire
fréends
,
with
my
honor
stil
remain
:
Ambidexter
.
Beholde
where
the
King
dooth
come
with
his
train
.
King.
Enter
king
&
1.
Lord
O
Lording
déer
and
brother
mine
,
I
ioy
your
state
to
sée
:
Surmising
much
what
is
the
cause
,
you
absent
thus
from
mée
.
Smirdis
.
Pleaseth
your
grace
no
absence
I
,
but
redy
to
fulfil
:
At
all
assayes
my
Prince
and
king
,
in
that
your
grace
me
wil.
What
I
can
doo
in
true
defence
,
to
you
my
Prince
aright
:
In
redynes
I
alwaies
am
,
to
offer
foorth
my
might
.
king
.
And
I
the
like
to
you
again
doo
héer
auouch
the
same
:
All.
For
this
your
good
agréement
héer
,
now
praised
be
Gods
name
.
Ambidexter
.
But
hear
ye
noble
Prince
,
hark
in
you
eare
.
It
is
best
to
doo
as
I
did
declare
.
king
.
My
Lord
and
brother
Smirdis
now
,
this
is
my
minde
and
wil
:
That
you
to
Court
of
mine
return
,
and
there
to
tary
stil
.
Til
my
return
within
short
space
,
your
honor
for
to
gréet
:
Smirdis
.
At
your
behest
so
wil
I
doo
,
til
time
again
wée
méet
.
My
leaue
I
take
from
you
(
O
King
)
euen
now
I
doo
departe
.
King.
Exeunt
Smirdis
,
attendance
&
diligence
Farwel
Lord
and
Brother
mine
,
farwel
with
all
my
hart
.
My
Lord
,
my
brother
Smirdis
is
,
of
youth
and
manly
might
:
And
in
his
swéet
and
pleasant
face
,
my
hart
dooth
take
delight
.
Lord.
Yea
noble
Prince
if
that
your
grace
,
before
his
honor
dye
:
He
wil
succeed
a
vertuous
King
,
and
rule
with
equitie
.
King.
As
you
haue
said
my
Lord
,
he
is
chéef
heire
next
my
grace
:
And
if
I
dye
to
morrow
next
he
shall
succéed
my
place
.
Ambidexter
And
if
it
please
your
grace
(
O
king
)
I
herd
him
say
:
For
your
death
vnto
the
God
,
day
and
night
he
did
pray
.
He
would
liue
so
vertuously
,
and
get
him
such
a
praise
:
That
Fame
by
trump
his
due
deserts
,
his
honor
should
vp
raise
.
He
said
your
grace
deserued
had
,
the
cursing
of
all
men
:
That
ye
should
neuer
after
him
,
get
any
praise
agen
.
King.
Did
he
speake
thus
of
my
grace
,
in
such
dispightful
wise
?
Or
els
doost
thou
presume
to
fil
my
princely
eares
with
lyes
?
Lord
I
connot
think
it
in
my
hart
,
that
he
would
report
so
,
King.
How
sayst
thou
?
speake
the
trueth
,
was
it
soor
no
?
Ambidexter
I
think
so
if
it
please
your
grace
,
but
I
cannot
tel
:
King.
Thou
plaist
with
bothe
hands
,
now
I
perceiue
wel
:
But
for
to
put
all
doutes
aside
,
and
to
make
him
léese
his
hope
:
He
shall
dye
by
dent
of
Swoord
,
or
els
by
choking
Rope
.
Shall
he
succéed
when
I
am
gone
,
to
haue
more
praise
then
I
?
Were
he
Father
as
brother
mine
,
I
swere
that
he
shall
dye
.
To
pallaice
mine
I
wil
therfore
,
his
death
for
to
pursue
.
Exit
.
Ambidexter
.
Are
ye
gone
?
straight
way
I
wil
followe
you
.
How
like
ye
now
my
maisters
?
dooth
not
this
géer
cotton
?
The
prouerb
olde
is
verified
,
soon
ripe
and
soon
rotten
.
He
will
not
be
quiet
,
til
his
Brother
be
kild
:
His
delight
is
wholly
to
haue
his
blood
spild
.
Mary
Sir
I
tolde
him
a
notable
lye
:
If
it
were
to
doo
again
man
,
I
durst
doo
it
I.
Mary
when
I
had
doon
,
to
it
I
durst
not
stand
:
Therby
you
may
perceiue
I
vse
to
play
with
eche
hand
.
But
how
now
Cosin
Cutpursse
with
whome
play
you
?
Take
héed
for
his
hand
is
groping
euen
now
.
Cosin
take
héed
,
if
ye
doo
secretly
grope
:
If
ye
be
taken
Cosin
,
ye
must
looke
through
a
rope
.
Exit
.
Smirdis
.
Enter
Lord
Smirdis
alone
I
am
wandring
alone
héer
and
there
to
walke
,
The
Court
is
so
vnquiet
,
in
it
I
take
no
ioy
:
Solitary
to
my self
now
I
may
talke
,
If
I
could
rule
I
wist
what
to
say
.
Crueltie
.
Enter
Crueltie
and
Murder
with
bloody
hands
.
My
coequall
partner
Murder
,
come
away
.
From
me
,
long
thou
maist
not
stay
.
Murder
.
Yes
from
thée
I
may
stay
,
but
not
thou
from
me
:
Therfore
I
haue
a
prerogatiue
abooue
thée
.
Crueltie
.
But
in
this
case
we
must
togither
abide
:
Come
,
come
,
Lord
Smirdis
I
haue
spide
.
Lay
hands
on
him
with
all
festination
:
That
on
him
we
may
woork
our
indignation
.
Smirdis
.
How
now
my
freends
?
what
haue
you
to
doo
with
me
?
Murder
.
King
Cambises
hath
sent
vs
vnto
thée
.
Commaunding
vs
straightly
,
with
out
mercy
or
fauour
:
Upon
thée
to
bestow
our
behauiour
.
With
Crueltie
to
murder
you
,
and
make
you
away
.
Smirdis
.
strike
him
in
diuers
places
Yet
pardon
me
I
hartely
you
pray
:
Consider
the
King
is
a
tirant
tirannious
:
And
all
his
dooings
be
damnable
and
parnitious
.
Fauour
me
therfore
,
I
did
him
neuer
offend
:
Crueltie
.
A
little
bladder
of
Vineger
prikt
.
No
fauour
at
all
,
your
life
is
at
an
end
.
Euen
now
I
strike
his
body
to
wound
:
Beholde
now
his
blood
springs
out
on
the
ground
,
Murder
.
Now
he
is
dead
,
let
vs
present
him
to
the
King
:
Crueltie
.
Lay
to
your
hand
,
away
him
to
bring
.
Exeunt
Ambidexter
.
Enter
Ambidexter
.
O
the
passion
of
God
,
yunder
is
a
heuy
Court
:
Some
wéeps
,
some
wailes
,
and
some
make
great
sport
.
Lord
Smirdis
,
by
Crueltie
and
Murder
is
slain
:
But
Iesus
for
want
of
him
,
how
some
doo
complain
.
If
I
should
haue
had
a
thousand
pound
,
I
could
not
forbeare
wéeping
Now
Iesus
haue
his
blessed
soule
in
kéeping
.
Ah
,
good
Lord
,
to
think
on
him
,
how
it
dooth
me
gréeue
:
I
can
not
forbeare
wéeping
,
ye
may
me
beléeue
.
Weep
,
O
my
hart
,
how
my
pulses
doo
beat
:
With
sorowful
lamentations
,
I
am
in
such
a
heat
.
Ah
my
hart
,
how
for
him
it
dooth
sorow
:
Nay
I
haue
doon
in
faith
now
,
and
God
giue
you
good
morow
.
Ha
,
ha
,
wéep
nay
laugh
,
with
both
hands
to
play
:
The
king
througe
his
crueltie
,
hath
made
him
away
,
But
hath
not
he
wrought
,
a
moste
wicked
déed
:
Because
king
after
him
he
should
not
procéed
.
His
owne
naturall
brother
and
hauing
no
more
:
To
procure
his
death
by
violence
sore
.
In
spight
because
his
brother
should
neuer
be
King
:
His
hart
béeing
wicked
consented
to
this
thing
.
Now
he
hath
no
more
Brothers
nor
kinred
aliue
:
If
the
King
vse
this
géer
stil
,
he
cannot
long
thriue
.
Hob
,
Enter
Hob
and
Lob.
Gods
hat
Naibor
come
away
,
its
time
to
market
to
go
Lob.
Gods
Vast
Naybor
zay
ye
zo
?
The
Clock
hath
striken
viue
ich
think
by
laken
:
Bum
Vay
vrom
sléep
cham
not
very
wel
waken
.
But
Naybor
Hoh
,
Naybor
Hob
,
what
haue
ye
to
zel
?
Hob
Bum
troth
Naybor
Lob
to
you
I
I
hil
tel
.
Chaue
twoo
Goslings
,
and
a
Chine
of
good
Porke
:
There
is
no
vatter
betwéen
this
and
Yorke
.
Chaue
a
pot
of
Strawberyes
and
a
Calues
hed
:
A
zennight
zince
to
morrow
it
hath
béen
dead
.
Lob.
Chaue
a
score
of
Egges
,
and
of
Butter
a
pound
:
Yesterday
a
nest
of
goodly
yung
Rabits
I
bound
.
Chaue
vorty
things
mo
,
of
more
and
of
lesse
:
My
brain
is
not
very
good
them
to
expresse
.
But
Gods
Hat
Naybor
,
wotst
what
?
Hob.
No
not
wel
Naybor
.
what
s
that
?
Lob.
Bum
vay
Naybor
,
maister
king
is
a
zhrode
lad
Zo
God
help
me
and
holidam
,
I
think
the
vool
he
mad
.
Zome
zay
he
deale
cruelly
his
Brother
he
did
kil
:
And
also
a
goodly
yung
lads
hart
blood
,
he
did
spil
,
Hob.
Vorbod
of
God
naibor
,
has
he
plaied
zuch
a
volish
déed
?
Ambidexter
.
Goodman
Hob
and
goodman
Lob
,
God
be
your
spéed
.
As
you
twoo
towards
market
doo
walke
:
Of
the
Kings
crueltie
I
did
hear
you
talke
.
I
insure
you
,
he
is
a
King
moste
vile
and
parnitious
:
His
dooings
and
life
are
odious
and
vicious
.
Lob.
It
were
a
good
déed
zome
body
would
breke
his
hed
:
Hob.
Bum
vay
Naybor
Lob.
I
chousd
he
were
dead
.
Ambidexter
.
So
would
I
Lob
and
Hob
with
all
my
hart
:
Now
with
bothe
hands
,
wil
ye
sée
me
play
my
parte
?
A
ye
Whorson
traitorly
Knaues
:
Hob
and
Lob
out
vpon
you
slaues
.
Lob.
And
thou
calst
me
knaue
thou
art
an
other
:
My
name
is
Lob
and
Hob
my
next
Naybor
.
Ambidexter
.
Hob
and
Lob
,
a
ye
cuntry
Patches
:
A
ye
fooles
ye
haue
made
wrong
matches
.
Ye
haue
spoken
treason
against
the
kings
grace
:
For
it
I
wil
accuse
ye
before
his
face
.
Then
for
the
same
ye
shal
be
martered
:
At
the
least
ye
shall
be
hangd
,
drawn
and
quartered
:
Hob.
O
gentleman
ye
shall
haue
two
Peare
pyes
and
tel
not
of
me
.
Lob.
By
God
a
vat
Goose
I
hil
giue
thée
.
I
think
no
hurt
by
my
Vathers
soule
I
zweare
:
Hob.
Chaue
liued
wel
all
my
life
time
my
naybors
among
:
And
now
chould
be
lothe
to
come
to
zuch
wrong
.
To
be
hanged
and
quartered
the
gréef
would
be
great
:
Lob.
A
foule
euil
on
thée
Hob
,
who
bid
thée
on
it
treat
?
Vor
it
was
thou
that
first
did
him
name
.
Hob.
Thou
lyest
like
a
varlet
,
and
thou
zaist
the
same
,
It
was
zuch
a
voolish
Lob
as
thou
:
Lob.
Speake
many
woords
and
by
cods
nailes
I
vow
:
Vpon
thy
pate
my
staffe
I
wil
lay
.
Ambidexter
.
By
the
Masse
I
wil
cause
them
to
make
a
fray
.
Yea
Lob
thou
sayest
true
,
all
came
through
him
.
Lob.
Bum
vay
thou
Hob.
a
little
would
make
me
ye
trim
.
Giue
thée
a
zawp
on
thy
nose
til
thy
hart
ake
:
Hob.
If
thou
darest
doo
it
,
els
man
cry
creke
.
I
trust
before
thou
hurt
me
:
With
my
staffe
I
hil
make
a
Lob
of
thée
.
¶
Heer
let
them
fight
with
their
slaues
,
not
come
neer
an
other
by
three
or
foure
yardes
,
the
Vice
set
them
on
as
hard
as
he
can
one
of
their
wiues
come
out
and
all
to
beat
the
Vice
,
he
run
away
¶
Enter
Marian
may
be
good
,
Hobs
wife
running
in
with
a
Broome
and
parte
them
.
Marian.
O
the
body
of
me
husband
Hob
,
what
meane
you
to
fight
:
For
the
passion
of
God
,
no
more
blowes
smite
.
Neighbours
and
fréends
so
long
,
and
now
to
fall
out
:
What
?
in
your
age
to
seeme
so
stout
?
If
I
had
not
parted
ye
,
one
had
kild
another
:
Lob.
I
had
not
cared
I
swere
by
Gods
mother
.
Marian
,
Shake
hands
again
at
the
request
of
me
:
As
ye
haue
béen
fréends
,
so
fréends
stil
be
.
Hob.
Bum
troth
c
ham
content
,
and
zaist
woord
neigbor
Lob
:
Lob.
I
am
content
agréed
neighbor
Hob.
Shake
hands
and
laugh
hartely
one
at
an
other
.
Marian.
So
,
get
you
to
market
,
no
longer
stay
.
And
with
yonder
knaue
let
me
make
a
fray
.
Hob.
Content
wife
Marian
,
I
hil
doo
as
thou
doost
say
:
But
busse
me
ich
pray
thée
at
going
away
.
Exeunt
Hob.
Lob.
Marian.
Thou
whorson
knaue
&
prickeard
boy
,
why
didst
thou
let
them
fight
?
If
one
had
kild
another
héer
,
couldst
thou
their
deaths
requite
?
It
beares
a
signe
by
this
thy
déed
,
a
cowardly
knaue
thou
art
:
Els
wouldst
thou
draw
the
weapon
thine
,
like
a
man
them
to
parte
Ambidexter
,
What
Marian
may
be
good
,
are
you
come
pratling
?
Ye
may
hap
get
a
box
on
the
eare
,
with
your
talking
.
If
they
had
kilde
one
another
,
I
had
not
cared
a
pease
:
Heer
let
her
swinge
him
in
her
brome
,
she
gets
him
down
,
&
he
her
down
,
thus
one
on
the
top
of
an
other
make
pastime
Marian.
A
villain
,
my self
on
thée
I
must
ease
.
Giue
me
a
box
on
the
eare
?
that
wil
I
try
:
Who
shal
be
Maister
thou
shalt
see
by
and
by
.
Ambidexter
.
O
no
more
,
no
more
I
beseech
you
hartely
:
Euen
now
I
yéeld
,
and
giue
you
the
maistery
.
Run
his
way
out
while
she
is
down
,
Marian
A
thou
knaue
,
doost
thou
throw̄
me
down
and
run
thy
way
?
If
he
were
heer
again
,
oh
how
I
would
him
pay
.
I
wil
after
him
,
and
if
I
can
him
méet
:
With
these
my
nailes
,
his
face
I
wil
gréet
.
¶
Enter
Venus
leading
out
her
sone
Cupid
blinde
,
he
must
haue
a
bowe
and
two
shafts
,
one
hedded
with
golde
and
th'
other
hedded
with
lead
.
Venus
.
Come
foorth
my
sonne
,
vnto
my
woords
attentiue
eares
resigne
What
I
pretend
sée
you
frequent
,
to
force
this
game
of
mine
.
The
King
a
kinswoman
hath
,
adornd
with
beautie
store
:
And
I
wish
that
Dianas
gifts
,
they
twain
shall
kéep
no
more
.
But
vse
my
siluer
sugred
game
,
their
ioyes
for
to
augment
:
When
I
doo
speake
to
wound
his
hart
,
Cupid
my
sonne
conset
.
And
shoot
at
him
the
shaft
of
looue
,
that
beares
the
hed
of
Golde
:
To
wound
his
hart
in
loouers
wise
,
his
gréef
for
to
vnfolde
.
Though
kin
she
be
vnto
his
grace
,
that
nature
me
expel
:
Against
the
course
therof
he
may
,
in
my
game
please
me
wel
.
Wherfore
my
sonne
doo
not
forget
,
foorthwith
pursue
the
déed
:
Cupid
.
Mother
I
meane
for
to
obay
,
as
you
haue
whole
decréed
.
But
you
must
tel
me
mother
deer
,
when
I
shall
arrow
draw
:
Els
your
request
to
be
attaind
,
wil
not
be
worth
a
straw
.
I
am
blinde
and
cannot
see
,
but
stil
doo
shoot
by
gesse
:
The
Poets
wel
in
places
store
,
of
my
might
doo
expresse
.
Venus
.
Cupid
my
sonne
when
time
shall
serue
,
the
thou
shalt
doo
this
déed
,
Then
warning
I
to
thee
wil
giue
,
but
sée
thou
shoot
,
with
speed
.
Lord.
Lord
Lady
,
waiting
maid
Lady
déer
to
King
a
kin
,
foorthwith
let
vs
procéed
:
To
trace
abrode
the
beauty
féelds
,
as
erst
we
had
decréed
.
The
blowing
buds
whose
sauery
sents
our
sence
wil
much
The
swéet
smel
of
musk
white
rose
,
to
plese
the
appetite
.
The
chirpig
birds
whose
plesant
tunes
,
therin
shall
hear
record
delight
That
our
great
ioy
we
shall
it
finde
,
in
féeld
to
walke
a
brode
.
On
Lute
and
Cittern
there
to
play
a
heauenly
hermony
:
Our
eares
shall
heare
,
hart
to
content
,
our
sports
to
beautie
.
Lady
.
Vnto
your
woords
moste
comely
Lord
,
my self
submit
doo
I
:
To
trace
with
you
in
féeld
so
green
,
I
meane
not
to
deny
.
Maid
heer
trace
vp
&
down
playing
And
I
your
waiting
maid
at
hand
,
with
diligence
wil
be
:
For
to
fulfil
with
hart
and
hand
,
when
you
shall
commaund
me
.
King.
Enter
king
.
Lord
&
knight
.
Come
on
my
Lord
and
knight
abrode
,
our
mirth
let
vs
imploy
Since
he
is
dead
this
hart
of
mine
,
in
corps
I
féel
it
ioy
.
Should
brother
mine
haue
reigned
King
,
when
I
had
yéelded
breth
A
thousand
brothers
I
rather
had
,
to
put
them
all
to
death
.
But
oh
,
beholde
where
I
doo
sée
,
a
Lord
and
Lady
fair
:
For
beauty
she
moste
worthy
is
,
to
sit
in
Princes
chaire
.
Venus
.
Shoot
forth
my
sonne
now
is
the
time
,
the
thou
must
wound
his
hart
Cupid
Content
you
Mother
I
wil
doo
my
parte
.
Shoot
there
and
go
out
Venus
and
Cupid
.
King.
Of
trueth
my
Lord
in
eye
of
mine
,
all
Ladyes
she
dooth
excel
:
Can
none
reporte
what
dame
she
is
,
and
to
my
grace
it
tel
?
Lord.
Redouted
Prince
pleaseth
your
grace
,
to
you
shée
is
a
kin
:
Cosin
Iarmin
nigh
of
birth
,
by
mothers
side
come
in
.
knight
.
And
that
her
waiting
maiden
is
attending
her
vpon
:
He
is
a
Lord
of
Princes
Court
,
and
wil
be
there
anon
.
They
sport
them selues
in
pleasant
féeld
,
to
former
vsed
vse
:
King.
My
Lord
&
knight
of
trueth
I
speake
,
my
hart
it
cannot
chuse
.
But
with
my
Lady
I
must
speake
and
so
expresse
my
minde
:
My
Lord
and
Ladyes
walking
there
,
if
you
wil
fauour
finde
.
Present
your selues
vnto
my
grace
,
&
by
my
side
come
stand
:
first
Lord.
We
wil
fulfil
moste
mightie
king
,
as
your
grace
doth
commaund
.
King.
Lady
déer
intelligence
,
my
grace
hath
got
of
late
:
You
issued
out
of
mothers
stock
,
and
kin
vnto
my
state
.
According
to
rule
of
birth
you
are
,
Cosin
iarmin
mine
:
Yet
doo
I
wish
that
farther
of
,
this
kinred
I
could
finde
.
For
Cupid
he
that
eyelesse
boy
,
my
hart
hath
so
inflamed
:
With
beauty
you
me
to
content
,
the
like
cannot
be
named
.
For
since
I
entred
in
this
place
and
on
you
fixt
mine
eyes
:
Moste
burning
fits
about
my
hart
in
ample
wise
did
rise
.
The
heat
of
them
such
force
dooth
yéeld
,
my
corps
they
scorch
alas
:
And
burnes
the
same
with
wasting
heat
,
as
Titan
dooth
the
grasse
And
sith
this
heat
is
kindled
so
,
and
fresh
in
hart
of
me
:
There
is
no
way
but
of
the
same
,
the
quencher
you
must
be
.
My
meaning
is
that
beauty
yours
,
my
hart
with
looue
dooth
wound
:
To
giue
me
looue
,
minde
to
content
my
hart
hath
you
out
found
.
And
you
are
shée
must
be
my
wife
,
els
shall
I
end
my
dayes
:
Consent
to
this
and
be
my
Quéen
,
to
were
the
crown
with
praise
.
Lady
.
If
it
please
your
grace
(
O
mightie
king
)
you
shall
not
this
request
It
is
a
thing
that
natures
course
,
dooth
vtterly
detest
.
And
high
it
would
the
God
displease
,
of
all
that
is
the
wurst
:
To
graunt
your
grace
to
marry
so
,
it
is
not
I
that
durst
.
Yet
humble
thanks
I
render
now
vnto
you
mightie
King
:
That
you
vouchsafe
to
great
estate
,
so
gladly
would
me
bring
.
Were
it
not
it
were
offence
,
I
would
it
not
deny
:
But
such
great
honor
to
atchiue
,
my
hart
I
would
apply
.
Therfore
(
O
king
)
with
humble
hart
,
in
this
I
pardon
craue
:
Mine
answere
is
in
this
request
:
your
minde
ye
may
not
haue
.
King.
May
I
not
?
nay
then
I
wil
by
all
the
Gods
I
vow
:
And
I
wil
mary
thée
as
wife
,
this
is
mine
answere
now
:
Who
dare
say
nay
what
I
pretend
,
who
dare
the
same
withstand
?
Shall
lose
his
hed
and
haue
reporte
,
as
traitor
through
my
land
.
There
is
no
nay
I
wil
you
haue
,
and
you
my
Quéen
shal
be
:
Lady
.
Then
mightie
King
I
craue
your
grace
,
to
hear
the
words
of
me
Your
councel
take
of
Lordings
wit
,
the
lawes
aright
peruse
:
If
I
with
safe
may
graunt
this
déed
,
I
wil
it
not
refuse
.
King.
No
,
no
,
what
I
haue
said
to
you
.
I
meane
to
haue
it
so
:
For
counsel
theirs
I
meane
not
I
,
in
this
respect
to
go
.
But
to
my
Pallaice
let
vs
go
,
the
mariage
to
prepare
:
For
to
auoid
my
wil
in
this
,
I
can
it
not
forbeare
.
Lady
.
O
God
forgiue
me
if
I
doo
amisse
:
The
king
by
compultion
,
inforseth
me
this
.
Maid
Vnto
the
Gods
for
your
estate
,
I
wil
not
cease
to
pray
:
That
you
may
be
a
happy
Quéen
.
and
sée
moste
ioyful
day
.
King.
Come
on
my
Lords
with
gladsome
harts
,
let
vs
reioice
with
glée
:
Your
Musick
showe
to
ioy
this
déed
,
at
the
request
of
me
.
Bothe
.
For
to
obey
your
graces
woords
our
honours
doo
agrée
.
Exeunt
Ambidexter
.
Enter
Ambidexter
O
the
Passion
of
me
,
mary
as
ye
say
,
yonder
is
a
royal
court
There
is
triumphing
and
sport
vpon
sporte
.
Such
loyall
Lords
,
with
such
Lordly
exercise
:
Frequenting
such
pastime
as
they
can
deuise
.
Running
at
tilt
,
Iusting
,
with
running
at
the
King
:
Masking
and
mumming
,
with
eche
kinde
of
thing
,
Such
dauncing
,
such
singing
,
with
musicall
hermony
:
Beleeue
me
I
was
lothe
to
absent
their
company
.
But
wil
you
beleue
?
Iesu
what
haste
they
made
til
they
were
maried
?
Not
for
a
Milion
of
pounds
one
day
longer
they
would
haue
taried
Oh
there
was
a
banquet
royall
and
superexelent
:
Thousands
,
and
thousands
at
that
banquit
was
spent
.
I
muse
of
nothing
but
how
they
can
be
maried
so
soon
:
I
care
not
if
I
be
maried
before
to
morow
at
noone
.
If
mariage
be
a
thing
that
so
may
be
had
:
How
say
you
maid
?
to
mary
me
wil
ye
be
glad
?
Out
of
dout
I
beléeue
it
is
some
excellent
treasure
:
Els
to
the
same
belongs
abundant
pleasure
.
Yet
with
mine
eares
I
haue
heard
some
say
:
That
euer
I
was
maried
,
now
cursed
be
the
day
.
Those
be
they
,
that
with
curse
wiues
be
matched
:
That
husband
for
hankes
meat
,
of
them
is
vp
snatched
.
Hed
broke
with
a
bedstaf
,
face
all
to
be
scratched
.
Knaue
slaue
and
villain
,
a
coild
cote
now
and
than
:
When
the
wife
hath
giuen
it
,
she
wil
say
alas
good
man
.
Such
were
better
vnmaried
my
maisters
I
trowe
:
Then
all
their
life
after
to
be
matched
with
a
shrowe
.
Preparation
.
Enter
Preparation
.
With
spéed
I
am
sent
all
things
to
prepare
:
My
message
to
doo
as
the
king
did
declare
.
His
grace
dooth
meane
a
banquit
to
make
:
Meaning
in
this
place
repaste
for
to
take
.
Wel
the
cloth
shal
be
laid
and
all
things
in
redynes
:
To
court
to
return
when
doon
is
my
busines
.
Ambidexter
.
A
proper
man
and
also
a
fit
.
For
the
Kings
estate
to
prepare
a
banquit
.
Preparation
.
What
Ambidexter
?
thou
art
not
vnknowen
:
A
wischéef
on
all
good
faces
,
so
that
I
curse
not
mine
owne
.
Now
in
the
knaues
name
shake
hands
with
me
.
Ambidexter
.
Wel
said
goodman
pouchmouth
your
reuerence
I
sée
.
I
will
teach
ye
,
if
your
manners
no
better
be
.
A
yée
slaue
,
the
king
dooth
me
a
gentleman
alow
:
Therfore
I
look
,
that
to
me
ye
shall
how
.
Fight
Preparation
.
Good
Maister
Ambidexter
,
pardon
my
behauiour
:
For
this
your
déeds
,
ye
are
a
knaue
for
your
labour
.
Ambidexter
.
Why
ye
stale
counterly
vaillain
,
nothing
but
Knaue
?
Fight
Preparation
.
I
am
sory
your
maistership
offended
I
haue
.
Shake
hands
that
betwéen
vs
agréement
may
bée
:
I
was
ouer
shot
with
my self
,
I
doo
see
.
Let
me
haue
your
help
,
this
furniture
to
prouide
:
The
King
from
this
place
wil
not
long
abide
.
Ambidexter
.
set
the
frute
on
the
bord
Content
,
it
is
the
thing
that
I
would
wish
:
I
my self
wil
go
fetch
on
Dish
.
¶
Let
the
Vice
fet
a
dish
of
nuts
and
let
them
fall
in
the
bringing
of
them
in
.
Preparation
.
Clenly
maister
Ambidexter
,
for
fair
on
the
ground
they
lye
:
Ambidexter
.
I
will
haue
them
vp
again
by
and
by
.
Preparation
.
To
sée
all
in
redynes
I
wil
put
you
in
trust
:
There
is
no
nay
to
the
Court
néeds
I
must
.
Exit
Prepartion
Ambidexter
.
Haue
ye
no
dout
but
all
shal
be
wel
:
Mary
Sir
as
you
say
,
this
geer
dooth
excel
.
All
things
is
in
a
redynes
,
when
they
come
hether
:
The
kings
grace
and
the
Quéen
bothe
togither
.
I
beséech
ye
my
maisters
tel
me
is
it
not
best
:
That
I
be
so
bolde
to
bid
a
gest
?
He
is
as
honest
a
man
as
euer
spurd
Cow
:
My
Cosin
cutpurse
I
meane
,
I
beséech
ye
iudge
you
:
Beléeue
me
Cosin
if
to
be
the
Kings
gest
,
ye
could
be
taken
:
I
trust
that
offer
would
not
be
forsaken
.
But
Cosin
because
to
that
office
ye
are
not
like
to
come
:
Frequent
your
exersises
,
a
horne
on
your
Thumb
.
A
quick
eye
,
a
sharp
knife
,
at
hand
a
receiuer
:
But
then
take
héed
Cosin
ye
be
a
clenly
conuayour
.
Content
your self
Cosin
,
for
this
banquit
you
are
vnfit
:
When
such
as
I
at
the
same
am
not
worthy
to
sit
.
Enter
King.
My
Quéen
and
Lords
to
take
repast
,
let
vs
attempt
the
same
Héer
is
the
place
delay
no
time
,
but
to
our
purpose
frame
.
Queene
.
With
willing
harts
your
whole
behest
,
we
minde
for
to
obay
:
All
And
we
the
rest
of
Princes
train
,
wil
doo
as
you
doo
say
.
king
Sit
at
the
banquit
.
Me
think
mine
eares
dooth
wish
the
sound
,
of
musicks
hermony
:
Héer
for
to
play
before
my
grace
,
in
place
I
would
them
spy
:
Ambidexter
.
Play
at
the
banquet
They
be
at
hand
Sir
with
stick
and
fidle
:
They
can
play
a
new
daunce
called
hey
didle
didle
.
King.
By
Quéen
parpend
what
I
pronounce
I
wil
not
violate
:
But
one
thing
which
my
hart
makes
glad
.
I
minde
to
explicate
You
knowe
in
Court
by
trained
is
,
a
Lyon
very
yung
:
Of
on
litter
two
whelps
beside
,
as
yet
not
very
strong
.
I
did
request
one
whelp
to
see
,
and
this
yung
Lion
fight
:
But
Lion
did
the
whelp
conuince
,
by
strength
of
force
a
might
.
His
brother
welp
perceiuing
that
the
Lion
was
to
good
:
And
he
by
force
was
like
to
sée
,
the
other
whelp
his
blood
.
With
force
to
Lyon
he
did
run
,
his
brother
for
to
help
:
A
wunder
great
it
was
to
sée
that
fréendship
in
a
whelp
.
So
then
the
the
whelpes
betwéen
them
both
the
Lion
did
conuince
Which
thing
to
see
before
mine
eyes
,
did
glad
that
hart
of
Prince
.
¶
At
this
tale
tolde
let
the
Queene
weep
.
Queene
.
These
woords
to
hear
makes
stilling
teares
,
issue
from
Christal
eyes
king
.
What
doost
thou
meane
my
spouse
to
wéep
,
for
losse
of
any
prise
Queene
.
No
,
no
(
O
King
)
but
as
you
see
,
fréendship
in
brothers
whelp
:
When
one
was
like
to
haue
repulse
,
the
other
yéelded
help
.
And
was
this
fauour
showd
in
dogs
to
shame
of
royall
king
:
Alack
I
wish
these
eares
of
mine
,
had
not
once
heard
this
thing
Euen
so
should
you
(
O
mightie
King
)
to
brother
béen
a
stay
:
And
not
without
offence
to
you
,
in
such
wise
him
to
slay
.
In
all
assayes
it
was
your
parte
,
his
cause
to
haue
defended
:
And
who
so
euer
had
him
misused
,
to
haue
them
reprehended
.
But
faithful
looue
was
more
in
Dog
,
then
it
was
in
your
grace
:
king
.
O
cursed
caitiue
vicious
vile
,
I
hate
thée
in
this
place
.
This
banquit
it
is
an
end
,
take
all
these
things
away
:
Before
my
face
thou
shalt
repent
,
the
woords
that
thou
doost
say
O
wretch
moste
vile
,
didst
thou
the
cause
of
brother
mine
so
tender
:
The
losse
of
him
should
gréeue
thy
hart
,
he
beeing
none
offender
It
did
me
good
his
death
to
haue
,
so
wil
it
to
haue
thine
:
What
freendship
he
had
at
my
hands
,
the
same
euen
that
shalt
finde
I
giue
consent
and
make
a
vow
,
that
thou
shalt
dye
the
death
:
By
Cruels
swoord
&
Murder
fel
,
euen
thou
shalt
dye
the
breth
.
Ambidexter
,
see
with
spéed
,
to
Crueltie
ye
go
:
Cause
him
hether
to
approch
,
Murder
with
him
also
.
Ambidexter
.
I
redy
am
for
to
fulfil
,
if
that
it
be
your
graces
wil.
king
.
Then
nought
oblight
my
message
giuen
,
absent
thy self
away
:
Ambidexter
.
Then
in
this
place
,
I
wil
no
longer
stay
:
If
that
I
durst
,
I
would
mourne
your
case
:
But
alas
,
I
dare
not
for
feare
of
his
grace
.
king
.
Exit
Ambidexter
.
Thou
cursed
Iil
,
by
all
the
Gods
,
I
take
an
othe
and
swete
:
that
flesh
of
thine
these
hands
of
mine
,
in
péeces
small
could
tere
.
But
thou
shalt
dye
by
dent
of
swoord
,
there
is
no
fréend
ne
f
ee
:
Shall
finde
remorce
at
Princes
hand
,
to
saue
the
life
of
thee
.
Queene
.
Oh
mightle
King
&
husband
mine
,
vouchsafe
to
héer
me
speke
:
And
licence
giue
to
spouse
of
thine
,
her
patient
minde
to
breke
.
For
tender
looue
vnto
your
grace
,
my
woords
I
did
so
frame
:
For
pure
looue
dooth
hart
of
king
,
me
violate
and
blame
.
And
to
your
grace
is
this
offence
,
that
I
should
purchase
death
:
Then
cursed
time
that
I
was
Quéen
,
to
shorten
this
my
breth
.
your
grace
doth
know
by
mariage
true
,
I
am
your
wife
&
spouse
And
one
to
saue
āothers
helth
(
at
troth
plight
)
made
our
vowes
Therfore
O
king
let
loouing
Quéen
,
at
thy
hand
finde
remorse
Let
pitie
be
a
meane
to
quench
,
that
cruel
raging
force
.
And
pardon
plight
from
princes
mouth
,
yéeld
grace
vnto
your
queen
:
That
amitie
with
faithful
zeal
,
may
euer
be
vs
betwéen
.
king
.
A
caitiue
vile
to
pitie
thée
,
my
hart
it
is
not
bent
:
Ne
yet
to
pardon
your
offence
,
it
is
not
mine
intent
.
first
Lord.
Our
mightie
prince
with
humbe
sute
of
your
grace
this
I
craue
:
That
this
request
it
may
take
place
,
your
fauour
for
to
haue
.
Let
mercy
yet
abundantly
the
life
of
Queen
preserue
:
Sith
shée
in
moste
obedient
wise
,
your
graces
wil
dooth
serue
.
As
yet
your
grace
but
while
with
her
,
hath
had
cohabitation
:
And
sure
this
is
no
desert
why
,
to
yeeld
her
indiguation
.
Therfore
(
O
King
)
her
life
prolong
,
to
ioy
her
dayes
in
blisse
:
second
Lord.
Your
grace
shall
win
immortall
fame
,
in
graunting
vnto
this
.
She
is
a
Queene
whose
goodly
hue
,
excelles
the
royall
Rose
:
For
beautie
bright
dame
nature
she
,
a
large
gift
did
dipose
.
For
comelynes
who
may
compare
?
of
all
she
beares
the
bet
:
This
should
giue
cause
to
mooue
your
grace
,
to
looue
her
very
wel
.
Her
siluer
brest
in
those
your
armes
,
to
sing
the
songs
of
looue
:
Fine
quallities
moste
excellent
to
be
in
her
you
prooue
.
A
preciouse
pearle
of
prise
to
Prince
,
a
Iewel
passing
all
:
Therfore
(
O
king
to
beg
remorce
on
bothe
my
knées
I
fall
.
To
graunt
her
grace
to
haue
her
life
,
with
hart
I
doo
desire
:
King.
You
villaines
twain
,
with
raging
force
,
ye
set
my
hart
on
fire
.
If
I
consent
that
she
shall
dye
,
how
dare
ye
craue
her
life
?
You
two
to
aske
this
at
my
hand
,
dooth
much
inlarge
my
strife
.
Were
it
not
for
shame
you
two
should
dye
,
that
for
her
life
doo
sue
But
fauour
mine
from
you
is
gone
,
my
Lords
Itel
you
true
.
I
sent
for
Crueltie
of
late
,
if
he
would
come
away
:
I
would
commit
her
to
his
hands
,
his
cruel
parte
to
play
.
Euen
now
I
see
where
he
dooth
come
,
it
dooth
my
hart
delight
:
¶
Enter
Crueltie
and
Murder
.
Crueltie
,
Come
Murder
,
come
,
let
vs
go
foorth
with
might
.
Once
again
the
Kings
commaundement
we
must
fulfil
Murder
.
I
am
contented
to
doo
it
with
a
good
wil.
king
.
Murder
and
Crueltie
,
for
bothe
of
you
I
sent
:
With
all
festination
,
your
offices
to
frequent
.
Lay
holde
on
the
Quéen
,
take
her
to
your
power
:
And
make
her
away
with
in
this
houre
.
Spare
for
no
feare
I
doo
you
ful
permit
:
So
I
from
this
place
,
doo
meane
for
to
flit
.
Bothe
.
With
couragious
harts
(
O
King
)
we
will
obey
:
King.
Then
come
my
Lords
let
vs
departe
away
.
Bothe
the
Lords
.
With
heuy
harts
we
wil
doo
all
,
your
grace
dooth
say
,
Crueltie
.
Exeunt
king
,
&
Lords
Come
Lady
and
Quéen
now
are
you
in
our
haudling
:
In
faith
with
you
we
wil
vse
no
dandling
.
Murder
.
With
all
expedition
,
I
Murder
wil
take
place
:
Though
thou
be
a
Quéene
,
ye
be
vnder
my
grace
.
Queene
.
With
patience
I
wil
you
bothe
obey
:
Crueltie
.
No
more
woords
but
go
with
vs
away
.
Queene
.
Yet
before
I
dye
some
Psalme
to
God
let
me
sing
:
Bothe
.
We
be
content
to
permit
you
that
thing
.
Queene
.
Farwel
you
Ladyes
of
the
Court
,
with
all
your
masking
hew
:
I
doo
forsake
these
brodered
gardes
,
and
all
the
facions
new
.
The
Court
and
all
the
courtly
train
,
wherin
I
had
delight
:
I
banished
am
from
happy
sporte
and
all
by
spightful
spight
.
Yet
with
a
ioyful
hart
to
God
a
Psalme
I
meane
to
sing
:
Forgiuing
all
&
the
king
,
of
eche
kinde
of
thing
.
sing
&
Exeunt
Ambidexter
.
Enter
Ambidexter
weping
A
,
A
,
A.
A
,
I
cannot
chuse
but
wéep
for
the
Quéene
:
Nothing
but
mourning
now
at
the
Court
there
is
séen
.
Oh
,
oh
,
my
hart
,
my
hart
,
Oh
my
bum
wil
break
:
Very
gréef
so
torments
me
that
scarce
I
can
speake
.
Who
could
but
wéep
for
the
losse
of
such
a
Lady
?
That
can
not
I
doo
,
I
sweare
by
mine
honesty
.
But
Lord
so
the
Ladyes
mourn
crying
a
lack
:
Nothing
is
worne
now
but
onely
black
.
I
beleeue
all
cloth
in
walling
street
,
to
make
gownes
would
not
serue
If
I
make
a
lye
,
the
Deuil
let
ye
sterue
.
All
Ladyes
mourne
bothe
yung
and
olde
:
There
is
not
one
that
weareth
a
points
worth
of
Gold
There
is
a
sorte
for
feare
,
for
the
King
doo
pray
:
That
would
haue
him
dead
,
by
the
masse
I
dare
say
.
What
a
King
was
he
that
hath
vsed
such
tiranny
?
He
was
a
kin
to
Bishop
Bonner
,
I
think
verely
,
For
bothe
their
delights
was
to
shed
blood
:
But
neuer
intended
to
doo
any
good
.
Cambises
put
a
Iudge
to
death
,
that
was
a
good
deed
:
But
to
kil
the
yung
Childe
was
worse
to
procéed
.
To
murder
his
Brother
,
and
then
his
owne
wife
:
So
help
me
God
and
holidom
,
it
is
pitie
of
his
life
Heare
ye
?
I
wil
lay
twentie
thousand
pound
:
That
the
king
him self
dooth
dye
by
some
wound
.
He
hath
shed
so
much
blood
that
his
wil
be
shed
:
If
it
come
so
to
passe
infaith
then
he
is
sped
.
¶
Enter
the
king
without
a
gown
,
a
swoord
thrust
vp
into
his
side
bleeding
.
King.
Out
alas
what
shall
I
doo
?
my
life
is
finished
.
Wounded
I
am
by
sudain
chaunce
,
my
blood
is
m●nished
.
Gogs
hart
what
meanes
might
I
make
,
my
life
to
preserue
?
Is
there
nought
to
be
my
help
:
nor
is
their
nought
to
serue
?
Out
vpon
the
Court
,
and
Lords
that
there
remain
:
To
help
my
gréef
in
this
my
case
,
wil
none
of
them
take
pain
?
Who
but
I
in
such
a
wise
his
deaths
wound
could
haue
got
:
As
I
on
horse
back
vp
did
leape
,
my
swoord
from
scabard
shot
.
And
ran
me
thus
into
the
side
,
as
you
right
wel
may
see
:
A
meruels
chaunce
vnfortunate
,
that
in
this
wise
should
bée
.
I
feele
my self
a
dying
now
,
of
life
bereft
am
I
:
And
death
hath
caught
me
with
his
dart
,
for
want
of
blood
I
spy
.
Thus
gasping
héer
on
ground
I
lye
,
for
nothing
I
doo
care
:
A
iust
rewad
for
my
misdeeds
,
my
death
dooth
plain
declare
.
¶
Heer
let
him
quake
and
stir
,
Ambidexter
.
How
now
noble
King
?
pluck
vp
your
hart
:
What
wil
you
dye
,
and
from
vs
departe
?
Speake
to
me
,
and
you
be
aliue
:
He
cannot
speake
,
but
beholde
how
with
death
he
dooth
striue
.
Alas
good
King
,
alas
he
is
gone
,
The
Deuil
take
me
,
if
for
him
I
make
any
mone
.
I
did
prognosticate
of
his
end
by
the
Masss
:
Like
as
I
did
say
so
is
it
come
to
passe
.
I
wil
be
gone
,
if
I
should
be
found
héer
:
That
I
should
kil
him
it
would
appéer
.
For
feare
with
his
death
they
doo
me
charge
:
Farewel
my
maisters
I
wil
go
take
barge
.
I
meane
to
be
packing
now
is
the
tide
:
Farewel
my
maisters
I
wil
no
longer
abide
.
Exit
Ambidexter
.
¶
Enter
three
Lords
first
Lord.
Beholde
my
Lords
it
is
euen
so
,
as
he
to
vs
did
tel
:
His
grace
is
dead
vpon
the
ground
,
by
dent
of
swoord
moste
fel.
second
Lord.
As
he
in
saddle
would
haue
lept
,
his
sword
from
sheath
did
go
:
Coring
him
vp
into
the
side
,
his
life
was
ended
so
.
third
Lord.
His
blood
so
fast
did
issue
out
,
that
nought
could
him
prolong
:
Yet
before
he
yéelded
vp
the
ghost
,
his
hart
was
very
strong
.
first
Lord.
A
iust
rewarde
for
his
misdeeds
,
the
God
abooue
hath
wrought
:
For
certainly
the
life
he
led
,
was
to
be
counted
nought
.
second
Lord.
Yet
a
princely
buriall
he
shall
haue
,
according
his
estate
:
And
more
of
him
heer
at
this
time
,
we
haue
not
to
dilate
.
third
Lord
My
Lord
let
vs
take
him
vp
,
to
cary
him
away
.
Bothe
.
Content
we
are
with
one
accord
,
to
doo
as
you
doo
say
.
Exeunt
.
All