Enter LA CASTRE, NANTOLET, LUGIER, and DE GARD.

La Cast., Nant., &c. And we'll make up the rest, lady.

Ori. Then Oriana takes ye! Nay, she has caught ye;

If yestart now, let all the world ery shame on ye! I have out-travell'd ye.

Bel. Did not I say she would cheat thee? 80 Mir. I thank ye: I am pleas'd ye have deceiv'd me,

And willingly I swallow it, and joy in 't ;
And yet, perhaps, I knew 2 ye. Whose plot was

this?

Bos. I have done you better service than to be slighted thus. Miserable age, where only the reward of doing well is the doing of it!

Card. You enforce your merit too much. Bos. I fell into the galleys in your serv- [ ice; where, for two years together, I wore two towels instead of a shirt, with a knot on the shoulder, after the fashion of a Roman mantle. Slighted thus! I will thrive some way. Blackbirds fatten best in hard weather; why not [* I in these dog-days?

Card. Would you could become honest!

Bos. With all your divinity do but direct me the way to it. I have known many travel far for it, and yet return as arrant knaves as [↔ they went forth, because they carried themselves always along with them. [Exit CARDINAL.] Are you gone? Some fellows, they say, are possessed with the devil, but this great fellow were able to possess the greatest devil, and make him [se

worse.

Ant. He hath denied thee some suit?

Bos. He and his brother are like plum-trees that grow crooked over standing-pools; they are rich and o'erladen with fruit, but none but crows, pies, and caterpillars feed on them. [ Could I be one of their flatt'ring panders, I would hang on their ears like a horse leech, till I were full, and then drop off. I pray, leave me. Who would rely upon these miserable dependencies. in expectation to be advanc'd to a

morrow? What creature ever fed worse than hoping Tantalus? Nor ever died any man more fearfully than he that hop'd for a pardon. There are rewards for hawks and dogs when [es they have done us service; but for a soldier that hazards his limbs in a battle, nothing but a kind of geometry is his last supportation. Delio. Geometry?

Bos. Ay, to hang in a fair pair of slings, take his latter swing in the world upon an hon- [71 ourable pair of crutches, from hospital to hospital. Fare ye well, sir: and yet do not you scorn us; for places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man's head lies at that man's foot, and so lower and lower. [Exit.] 76 Del. I knew this fellow seven years in the

galleys

For a notorious murder; and 't was thought
The cardinal suborn'd it: he was releas'd
By the French general, Gaston de Foix,
When he recover'd Naples.

Ant.
'Tis great pity
He should be thus neglected: I have heard
He's very valiant. This foul melancholy
Will poison all his goodness; for, I'll tell you,
If too immoderate sleep be truly said
To be an inward rust unto the soul,
It then doth follow want of action

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Ferd. But I can laugh at your fool, my lord. Cast. He cannot speak, you know, but he makes faces; my lady cannot abide him. Ferd. No?

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Cast. Nor endure to be in merry company; for she says too full laughing, and too much company, fills her too much of the wrinkle.

Ferd. I would, then, have a mathematical instrument made for her face, that she might not laugh out of compass. I shall shortly visit [08 you at Milan, Lord Silvio.

Sil. Your grace shall arrive most welcome. Ferd. You are a good horseman, Antonio: you have excellent riders in France; what do you think of good horsemanship?

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Ant. Nobly, my lord as out of the Grecian horse issued many famous princes, so out of brave horsemanship arise the first sparks of growing resolution, that raise the mind to noble action.

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Ant. Some such flashes superficially hang on him for form; but observe his inward character: he is a melancholy churchman. The spring in his face is nothing but the engend'ring of toads; where he is jealous of any man, he lays worse plots for them than ever was im- [1 pos'd on Hercules, for he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters. He should have been Pope; but instead of coming to it by the primitive decency of the church, he did [6 bestow bribes so largely and so impudently as if he would have carried it away without heaven's knowledge. Some good he hath done

Delio. You have given too much of him. What's his brother?

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Ant. The duke there? A most perverse and turbulent nature.

What appears in him mirth is merely outside;
If he laught heartily, it is to laugh
All honesty out of fashion.

Delio. Ant.

Twins?

In quality.

He speaks with others' tongues, and hears

As cuts off all lascivious and vain hope.
Her days are practis'd in such noble virtue,
That sure her nights, nay, more, her very
sleeps,

Are more in heaven than other ladies' shrifts. Let all sweet ladies break their flatt'ring glasses,

And dress themselves in her.
Delio.

Fie, Antonio.

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Ferd. Call him hither. [Erit Attendants.] We [are] now upon & parting. Good Lord Silvio, Do us commend to all our noble friends At the leaguer.

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Sil. [Duch.]

Sir, I shall.

You are for Milan?

Sil. I am.

Duch. Bring the caroches.4 - We'll bring

you down

To the haven,

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[Exeunt DUCHESS, SILVIO, CASTRUCCIO, RODERIGO, GRISOLAN, CARIOLA, JULIA, and Attendants. Card. Be sure you entertain that Bosola For your intelligence. I would not be seen in 't; And therefore many times I have slighted him When he did court our furtherance, as this morning.

Ferd. Antonio, the great master of her household,

Had been far fitter.

Card. You are deceiv'd in him. 150 His nature is too honest for such business. He comes: I'll leave you.

Bos.

[Re-enter BOSOLA.]

[Exit.]

I was lur'd to you. Ferd. My brother, here, the cardinal could

never