ou?
_King_. Yes; see else, _Damianus, Antony,
Cosmo_; I am well.
_Omnes_. He does it by inchantment.
1 _Phys_. By meere Witch-Craft.
_Eugen_. Thy payment for my cure.
_King_. What?
_Eugen_. To turne Christian,
And set all Christian slaves at liberty.
_King_. Ile hang and torture all--
Call backe the Messenger sent with our signet.
For thy selfe, thou foole, should I allow
Thee life thou wouldst be poyson'd by our
Colledge of Physitians. Let him not touch me
Nor ever more come neare me; and to be sure
Thy sorceries shall not strike me, stone him to death.
(_They binde him to a stake, and fetch stones in baskets_.)
_Omnes. When?
_King_. Now, here presently.
_Eugen_. Ingratefull man!
_King_. Dispatch, his voyce is horrid in our eares;
Kill him, hurle all, and in him kill my feares.
_Eugen_. I would thy feares were ended.
_King_. Why thus delay you?
_Dam_. The stones are soft as spunges.
_Anton_. Not any stone here
Can raze his skin.
_Dam_. See, Sir.
_Cosmo_. Thankes, heavenly preservation.
_King_. Mockt by a hell-hound!
_Omnes_. This must not be endur'd, Sir.
_King_. Unbinde the wretch;
Naile him to the earth with Irons. Cannot death strike him?
New studied tortures shall.
_Eugen_. New tortures bring,
They all to me are but a banquetting.
[_Exit_.
_Anton_. But are you well, indeed, Sir?
_King_. Passing well:
Though my Physitian fetcht the cure from hell;
All's one, I am glad I have it.
[_Exeunt_.
_Actus Quartus_.
_Enter Antony, Cosmo, Hubert, and Damianus_.
_Anton_. You, noble Hubert, are the man[164] chosen out
From all our _Vandal_ Leaders to be chiefe
O'er a new army, which the King will raise
To roote out from our land these Christians
That over-runne us.
_Cosmo_. 'Tis a glory, _Hubert_,
Will raise your fame and make you like our gods,
To please whom you must do this.
_Dam_. And in doing
Be active as the fire and mercilesse
As is the boundlesse Ocean when it swallows
Whole Townes and of them leaves no Monuments.
_Hub_. When shall mine eyes be happy in the sight
Of this brave Pagentry?
_Cosmo_. The King sayes instantly.
_Hub_. And must I be the Generall?
_Omnes_. Onely you.
_Hub_. I shall not then at my returning home
Have sharers in my great acts: to the Volume
My Sword in bloody Letters shall text downe
No name must stand but mine; no
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