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pon' Here is a booke: so, keepe your countenance; You must imagine now you are transformed. Yonder she comes; in any case stir not. _Enter Katharine_. _Kath_. I feare I have detracted time too long In my determinde service to my Love; But Ile redeeme my fault with double care. See where his statue is set up: kind knight, For ever Katharine will record thy truth. _Pem_. How say you, Madam; ist not very like him! _Kath_. As like as if it were himselfe indeed. And would to God my prayers might be heard, That, as the image of Pigmalion once, Life might descend into this sencelesse stone: But that was faynd, as my desire is fond; Relentlesse Death withholds my Ferdinand, And no intreaty may recover him. In token, then, I do repent my scorne That I was cruell to so kind a friend, Thou, the presenter of his absent person, Receive these sweets; thy temples be adornd With this fresh garland; thy white ivory hand Boast of this ring, which, if thou wert alive, Should bind our faythes up in a nuptiall knot: But, for thou canst not be reviv'd agayne, He dwell with thee in death, and, as my spirit Mounts to the happy mansion of thy spirit, So, to accompany thy shaddow here, Ile turne my body to a shaddow, too, And, kneeling thus, confront thy silent lookes With my sad looks. This is the Instrument: Now, Ferdinand, behold thy Katharine comes. _Ferd_. And she is welcome unto Ferdinand. _Pem_. Ile play the dark for both and say Amen. Nay, muse not, madam: tis no sencelesse Image, But the true essence of your wished Love. _Kath_. I am asham'd to looke him in the face. _Ferd_. Hide not those splendant lights: hereafter be A constant wife; it shall suffice for me. _Kath_. Heaven cast her off if Katharine prove not so. _Pem_. Of that no more: now let us haste from hence To quiet the dissension lately sprung Betweene your parents. Philip, likewise gone To be reveng'd on Burbons trechery, Perhaps may stand in need of friendly ayd. To him and them our vowes must next be payd. _Ferd_. What Pembrook counsels we consent unto. [_Exeunt_. _Actus Quintus_. [SCENE 1.] _Enter Rodoricke and Philip_. _Rod_. Now whilest our Armies wearied with the heat That the bright sunne casts from his midday throne, Abstayne from bloudy intercourse of war, He lead thee, Philip, unto Burbons Tent. _Phil_. Rodoricke, thou highly favourest me in this And doubt not
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