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your person, And wisht me prosperous in your love, wish you so, Be wise and loving Lady, shew but you so. _Lam._ O Sir, are these fit hours to talk of love in? Shall we make fools of our afflictions? Can any thing sound sweetly in mine ears, Where all the noise of bloody horrour is? My Brother, and my Cousin, they are dead Sir, Dead, basely dead, is this an age to fool in? And I my self, I know not what I shall be, Yet I must thank you, and if happily You had ask'd me yesterday, when these were living, And my fears less, I might have hearkned to you. _Din._ Peace to your grief, I bind you to your word. _Enter_ Cleremont, Anabel, Beaupre, Verdone, Charlote, _Nurse, the two Gentlemen._ _Lam._ How? do you conjure? _Din._ Not to raise dreadfull apparitions, Madam, But such as you would gladly see. _Lam._ My Brother, and nephew living? _Beau._ And both owe their lives To the favour of these Gentlemen. _Verd._ Who deserve Our service, and for us, your gracious thanks. _Lam._ Which I give freely, and become a suitor, To be hereafter more familiar [_Kisse._ With such great worth and vertue. _1 Gent._ Ever think us Your servants, Madam. _Cler._ Why if thou wilt needs know How we are freed, I will discover it, And with laconick brevity: these Gentlemen This night incountring with those outlaws that Yesterday made us prisoners, and as we were Attempted by 'em they with greater courage, (I am sure with better fortune) not alone, Guarded themselves, but forc'd the bloody thieves, Being got between them, and this hellish Cave, For safety of their lives, to fly up higher Into the woods, all left to their possession, This sav'd your Brother, and your nephew from The gibbet, this redeem'd me from my Chains, And gave my friend his liberty, this preserv'd Your honour ready to be lost. _Din._ But that I know this for a ly, and that the thieves And gentlemen, are the same men, by my practice Suborn'd to this, he does deliver it With such a constant brow, that I am doubtfull, I should believe him too. _1 Gent._ If we did well, We are rewarded. _2 Gent._ Thanks but takes away From what was freely purpos'd. _Cler._ Now by this hand, You have so cunningly discharg'd your parts, That while we live, rest confident you shall Command _Dinant_ and _Cleremont_; nor _Beaupre_, Nor _Verdone_ scents it: for the Ladies, they Were easie to be gull'd. _1 Gent._ 'Twas but a
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