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ACTUS II. SCENA I.
Enter Thersames, Jolas a Lord of the Counsell
Iol.
I Told him so, Sir, urg'd 'twas no common kn••
That to the tying of it two powerfull Princes,
Vertue and Love were joyn'd and that
A greater than these two was now
Ingaged in it▪ Religion; but 'twould, not doe,
The corke of passion boy'd up all reason so
That what was said▪ swam but o'th▪top of th'eare
Nere reach't the heart:
Ther.
Is there no way for Kings to shew their power,
But in their Subjects wrongs? no subject neither
But his owne sonne?
Iol.
Right Sir:
No quarrie for his lust to gorge on, but on what
You fairly had flowne at and taken:
Well—wert not the King, or wert indeed
Not you▪ that have such hopes, and such a crowne
To venter, and yet—
'Tis but a woman.
Ther.
How? that but againe▪ and thou art more enjurious
Than hee, and woul't provoke me sooner.
Iol.
Why Sir?
There are no Altars yet addrest unto her,
Nor sacrifice; if I have made her lesse
Than what she is, it was my love to you:
For in my thoughts, and here within, I hold her
The Noblest peece Nature ere lent our eyes,
And of the which▪ all women else, are but
Weake counterfeits, made up by her journey-men▪
But was this fit to tell you?
I know you value but too high all that,