And will you leave me, too?
_Hen_. Not for the wealth of _Spaine_.
_Ele_. Since I must be your prisoner let me have
My keepers company, for I am afraid
Some enemy in your absence, like a woolfe
May ceize on me. I know not whither now
I ere shall see my father: doe not you
Ravish yourselfe from me, for at the worst
We may dye here, _Henrico_; and I had rather
Fall in your eye than in your absence be
Dishonord; if the destinyes have not
Spun out a longer thread, lets dye together.
_Hen_. Oh doe not racke my soule with these sad accents.
Am I _Henrico_? there is not any place
Can promise such security as this
To _Eleonora_. Doe not talke of dying,
Our best dayes are to come: putt on thy quiet,
And be above the reach of a misfortune.
Ile presently wayte on thee, by this kisse.
_Buz_. Would I might keepe your oath: so please you, lady,
_Buzzano_ will sweare too.
_Hen_. What?
_Buz_. That you'le be there and here agen presently.
_Hen_. Attend here, sirra.
_Buz_. If you must needes goe, pray, sir, keepe yourselfe out of
Gun-shott.
_Hen_. Mind you your charge.
_Buz_. You shall heare a good report of my piece, I warrant you.
Take heed you be not sent to heaven with a powder: a company of hott
shotts[15] are abroad, I can tell you.
_Ele_. If you will goe may your successe be faire.
_Hen_. Farewell; heaven cannot chuse but heare your prayer.
[_Exit_.
_Buz_. Now what please you, madam? that I shall amble, trott, or walke?
_Ele_. Any pace.
_Buz_. Yet, if you would referre it to me, I'de use none of them.
_Ele_. What wouldst doe?
_Buz_. Why I would gallop or run, for I think long till I be at home in
our Castle of comfort. If it please you Ile lead you a hand gallop in
the plaine ground, trott up hill with you & racke[16] downewards.
_Ele_. Talke not of rackes, prithee; the times present too many.
_Buz_. Ride me as you will, then; I am used both to curbe and snaffle.
_Ele_. I prithee tell me, _Buzzano_,--so, I heare thy master call thee--
_Buz_. He may call me at his pleasure, forsooth.
_Ele_. Dost thou know the nature of the _English_?
_Buz_. Both men and women: I travelled thither with an Embassadour. For
the men Ile not misse you a haire of their condition; and for the women
I know 'em as well as if I had bene in their bellyes.
_Ele_. Are they not cruell?
_Buz_. As Tygers, when they set on't: no mercy
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