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ourse, methinks, looke pale For feare they should not kisse agen; but, met, They blush for joy, as happy Lovers doe After a long divorce when they encounter. _Belliz_. Noble Lord, if you dare lose so much precious time As to be companion to my misery But one poor houre, And not esteeme your selfe too prodigall For that expence, this wretched Maid my Child Shall waite upon you with her sorrows stories; Vouchsafe but you to heare it. _Hub_. Yes, with full eare. _Belliz_. To your best thoughts I leave you; I will but read, and answer this my Letter. [_Exit. Belliz_. _Bellina_. Why do you, seeme to loose your eyes on me? Here's nothing but a pile of wretchednesse; A branch that every way is shooke at roote And would (I think) even fall before you now, But that Divinity which props it up Inspires it full of comfort, since the Cause My father suffers for gives a full glory To his base fetters of Captivity. And I beseech you, Sir, if there but dwell So much of Vertue in you as your lookes Seeme to expresse possesse your honour'd thoughts, Bestow your pitty on us, not your scorne; And wish, for goodnesse sake and your soules weale, You were a sharer in these sufferings, So the same cause expos'd your fortunes too't. _Hub_. Oh, happy woman, know I suffer more, And for a cause as iust. _Bellina_. Be proud then of that tryumph; but I am yet A stranger to the Character of what You say you suffer for. Is it for Conscience? _Hub_. For love, divine perfection. _Bellina_. If of Heaven's love, how rich is your reward! _Hub_. Of Heaven's best blessing, your most perfect selfe. _Bellina_. Alas, Sir, here perfection keeps no Court, Love dresses here no wanton amorous bowers; Sorrow has made perpetuall winter here, And all my thoughts are Icie, past the reach Of what Loves fires can thaw. _Hub_. Oh doe but take away a part of that My breast is full of, of that holy fire The Queene of Loves faire Altar holds not purer Nor more effectuall; and, sweet, if then You melt not into passion for my wounds, Effuse your Virgin vowes to chaine mine ears, Weepe on my necke and with your fervent sighes Infuse a soule of comfort into me; He break the Altar of the foolish God, Proclaime them guilty of Idolatry That sacrifice to _Cytheraeas_ sonne. _Bellina_. Did not my present fortunes and my vowes, Register'd in the Records of Heaven, Tye me too strictly from such thoughts as
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