round about: see you my love?
Rodoricke, look round about: see you my love?
_Lew_. I see her not.
_Rod_. Nor I.
_Phil_. I say not so:
The garments that she weares mine eye should know.
What Lady's this that hides her heavenly face?
Here are no Basilisks with killing eyes:
You need not hide your beauty: sweet, look up,
Me thinks I have an interest in these lookes.
What's here? a Leper amongst Noble men?
What creatures thys? why stayes she in this place?
Oh, tis no marvell though she hide her face,
For tis infectious: let her leave the presence,
Or Leprosie will cleave unto us all.
_Bel_. O let me leave the presence, gentle father,
When Philip bids his Bellamira goe.
_Phil_. My Bellamira!
_Lew_. How? my sonnes belov'd!
_Phil_. Is this my love? was this your beauteous child?
_Nav_. My child.
_Ferd_. My sister.
_Pem_. Beauteous Bellamira.
_Nav_. Spotted.
_Ferd_. Disfigured.
_Pem_. Made a loathsome Leper.
_Rod_. How came this sudden alteration?
For she was comely, lovely, beautiful,
When the day left his Charriot to the night.
_Nav_. That heaven doth know, and onely Bellamira.
Daughter, I charge thee, tell me how it came.
_Bell_. Burbon, oh Burbon,--
_Lew_. Did he doe the deed?
_Bell_. He came into my Tent at dead of night
And rubd my face with an infectuous herbe
Because I would not graunt unto his love.
I cry'd for helpe, but none did succour me.
_Rod_.--I know he did and laugh to thinke on [i]t.
_Lew_. And he shall rue his treason.
_Phil_. Threaten not;
Leave the revenge to me whom it concernes.
Tis I am robd of a delicious looke,
A heavenly sparkling brow, a starry eye,
A countenance fayrer than Auroraes lookes
When all the East is guilded with her blush.
Tis I will be reveng'd, but not before
I have espoused my lovely Bellamira.
_Lew_. Espoused her!
_Nav_. How? marry a face deform'd!
_Ferd_. A leprous creature!
_Pem_. An infectuous mayd!
_Rod_. One whose sores are perchance incureable!
_Phil_. Be they incureable, it is my Love,
And for my sake she hath indur'd this wrong;
And should I now forsake her thus distrest
I could not merit a true Lovers name.
To shew I love her I will marry her
Before the moneth expire, nay in the morne:
Delayes, perchance, may make her think I scorne.
_Bel_. Marry with me? fetch me a looking glasse
That I may see how sweet a bride I am.
Oh I detest my selfe. Deare, hate me, too:
I am not to be maryed but to death.
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