is: and bless her vertues for it,
And me, though she were closer, she would, _Gobrias,_
Good man indeed she would.

_Gob_.

Then good Sir, for her satisfaction,
Send for her and with reason make her know
Why she must live thus from you.

_Arb_.

I will; go bring her to me.

[_Exeunt all_.

_Enter_ Bessus, _And two Sword-men, and a Boy_.

_Bes_.

Y'are very welcome both; some stools boy,
And reach a Table; Gentlemen o'th' Sword,
Pray sit without more complement; be gone child.
I have been curious in the searching of you,
Because I understand you wise and valiant persons.

_1_.

We understand our selves Sir.

_Bes_.

Nay Gentlemen, and dear friends o'th' Sword,
No complement I pray, but to the cause
I hang upon, which in few, is my honour.

_2_.

You cannot hang too much Sir, for your honour,
But to your cause.

_Bes_.

Be wise, and speak truth, my first doubt is,
My beating by my Prince.

_1_.

Stay there a little Sir, do you doubt a beating?
Or have you had a beating by your Prince?

_Bes_.

Gentlemen o'th' Sword, my Prince has beaten me.

_2_.

Brother, what think you of this case?

_1_.

If he has beaten him, the case is clear.

_2_.

If he have beaten him, I grant the case;
But how? we cannot be too subtil in this business,
I say, but how?

_Bes_.

Even with his Royal hand.

_1_.

Was it a blow of love, or indignation?

_Bes_.

'Twas twenty blows of indignation, Gentlemen,
Besides two blows o'th face.

_2_.

Those blows o'th' face have made a new cause on't,
The rest were but an horrible rudeness.

_1_.

Two blows o'th' face, and given by a worse man, I must confess,
as the Sword-men say, had turn'd the business: Mark me brother,
by a worse man; but being by his Prince, had they been ten, and
those ten drawn teeth, besides the hazard of his nose for ever;
all this had been but favours: this is my flat opinion, which
I'le die in.

_2_.

The King may do much Captain, believe it; for had he crackt your
Scull through, like a bottle, or broke a Rib or two with tossing
of you, yet you had lost no honour: This is strange you may
imagine, but this is truth now Captain.

_Bes_.

I will be glad to embrace it Gentlemen;
But how far may he strike me?

_1_.

There is another: a new cause rising from the time and distance