me true); nor, sir, too fatt
(Slug[51] shipps can keepe no pace); no, nor too leane,
To read Anatomy lectures ore her Carcas.
Nor would I have my wife exceeding faire,
For then she's liquorish meate; & it would mad me
To see whoremasters teeth water at her,
Red haird by no meanes, though she would yeild money
To sell her to some Jew for poyson. No,
My wife shall be a globe terrestriall,
Moving upon no axeltree but mine;
Which globe when I turne round, what land soever
I touch, my wife is with me, still Ime at home.
_Ten_. But where will you find such a wife on earth?
_Hen_. No, such a wife in the Moone for me doth tarry:
If none such shine here I with none will marry.
_Ten_. The Lordes are come.
_Hen_. I care neyther for Lords nor Ladies.
_Enter the Nobles as before; Fernando, Manuell, Clarke, Jaylor_.
_Mac_. Where are these gentlemen? sett 'em both to a Barre
And opposite, face to face: a Confrontation
May perhaps daunt th'offender & draw from him
More then he'de utter. You accuse your Brother
As murtherer of your father: where's the proofe?
_Hen_. First call my fathers man in.
_Clark_. What's his name?
_Hen_. _Buzzano_.
_Clark_. Call _Buzzano_ in!
_Enter Buzzano_.
_Buz_. Here I am, here.
_Clark_. Stand out: whither goe you?
_Buz_. To stand out.
_Clark_. Stand there.
_Mac_. Now what can he say?
_Hen_. First, my Lord, heare mee:
My brother & I lying in one bed together,
And he just under us--
_Buz_. In my fleabitten Trundle bed.[52]
_Clark_. Peace, sirra.
_Hen_. About midnight I awaking,
And this _Buzzano_ too, my brother in his sleepe
Thus cryde out, "Oh, twas I that murtherd him,
This hand that killd him"!
_Gyr_. Heard you this, sirra?
_Buz_. As sure as I heare you now.
_Alq_. And you'le be sworne 'twas he that so cryde out?
_Buz_. If I were going to be hangd Ide sweare.
_Clark_. Forbeare the Court.
[_Exit Buzzano_.
_Mac_. All this is but presumption: if this be all
The shott you make against him your bullets stick
In a mud wall, or if they meete resistance
They backe rebound & fly in your owne face.
_Med_. Bring your best forces up, for these are weak ones.
_Hen_. Then here I throw my glove & challenge him
To make this good upon him: that at comming home
He first told me my father dyed in France,
Then some hours after that he was not dead
But that he left him in _Lorraine_ at _Nancy_,
Then at _Chaalo
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