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_2 Gent_. H'as taken his Chamber close, admits no entrance;
Tears in his eyes, and cryings out.
_Host_. 'Tis so, Sir,
And now I wish myself half hang'd ere I went this journey.
_Leo_. What is this Woman?
_Lieu_. I.
_Host_. I cannot tell ye,
But handsome as Heaven.
_Lieu_. She is not so high I hope, Sir.
_Leo_. Where is she?
_Lieu_. I, that would be known.
_Leo_. Why, Sirrah.
_Host_. I cannot show ye neither;
The King has now dispos'd of her.
_Leo_. There lyes the matter:
Will he admit none to come to comfort him?
_1 Gent_. Not any near, nor, let 'em knock their hearts out,
Will never speak.
_Lieu_. 'Tis the best way if he have her;
For look you, a man would be loth to be disturb'd in's pastime;
'Tis every good mans case.
_Leo_. 'Tis all thy living,
We must not suffer this, we dare not suffer it:
For when these tender souls meet deep afflictions,
They are not strong enough to struggle with 'em,
But drop away as Snow does, from a mountain,
And in the torrent of their own sighs sink themselves:
I will, and must speak to him.
_Lieu_. So must I too:
He promised me a charge.
_Leo_. Of what? of Children
Upon my Conscience, thou hast a double company,
And all of thine own begetting already.
_Lieu_. That's all one,
I'le raise 'em to a Regiment, and then command 'em,
When they turn disobedient, unbeget 'em:
Knock 'em o'th' head, and put in new.
_Leo_. A rare way;
But for all this, thou art not valiant enough
To dare to see the Prince now?
_Lieu_. Do ye think he's angry?
_1 Gent_. Extreamly vext.
_2 Gent_. To the endangering of any man comes near him.
_1 Gent_. Yet, if thou couldst but win him out,
What e're thy suit were,
Believe it granted presently.
_Leo_. Yet thou must think though,
That in the doing he may break upon ye,
And--
_Lieu_. If he do not kill me.
_Leo_. There's the question.
_Lieu_. For half a dozen hurts.
_Leo_. Art thou so valiant?
_Lieu_. Not absolutely so neither: no it cannot be,
I want my impostumes, and my things about me,
Yet I'le make danger, Colonel.
_Leo_. 'Twill be rare sport,
Howe're it take; give me thy hand; if thou dost this,
I'le raise thee up a horse Troop, take my word for't.
_Lieu_. What may be done by humane man.
_Leo_. Let's go then.
_1 Gent_. Away before he cool: he will relapse else. [_Ex._
_SCENA III._
_Enter Antigonus, Menippus, and Leucippe._
_Ant_. Will she not yield?
_Leu_.
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