Law and Nature.
Who to himselfe is law, no law doth need,
Offends no law, and is a King indeed.
_Henr._ Enjoy what thou intreat'st, we give but ours. 205
_Buss._ What you have given, my lord, is ever yours.
_Exit Rex cum [Montsurry.]_
_Gui._ _Mort dieu_, who would have pardon'd such a murther?
_Exit._
_Mons._ Now vanish horrors into Court attractions
For which let this balme make thee fresh and faire!
And now forth with thy service to the Duchesse, 210
As my long love will to Monsurries Countesse. _Exit._
_Buss._ To whom my love hath long been vow'd in heart,
Although in hand, for shew, I held the Duchesse.
And now through bloud and vengeance, deeds of height,
And hard to be atchiev'd, tis fit I make 215
Attempt of her perfection. I need feare
No check in his rivality, since her vertues
Are so renown'd, and hee of all dames hated. _Exit._
LINENOTES:
_Montsurry, and Attendants._ A, Beaumond, Nuncius.
11 _Where_. A, When.
27 _their_. A, his.
70 _Sparkl'd_. So in A; B, Spakl'd.
105 [_Montsurry._] Emend. ed.: Beau. Qq; see note 30, p.
149.
120 _a foot_. A, an eie.
128 _th'_. A, the.
129 _spirit_. A, spirits.
133 _All slaine outright_? So in A; B, All slaine
outright but hee?
135 _freckled_. A, feebled.
166 _true_. A, full.
185 _violent_. So in A; B, daring.
204 _law_. A, King.
206 _cum [Montsurry.]_ Emend. ed.: Qq, cum Beau. See note
30, p. 149.
207 _Mort dieu_. A; B omits.
210-218 _And now . . . hated_. A omits, inserting instead:
_Buss._ How shall I quite your love?
_Mons._ Be true to the
end.
I have obtained a kingdome with my friend.
[ACTUS SECUNDI SCENA SECUNDA.
_A Room in Montsurry's House._]
_Montsur[ry], Tamyra, Beaupre, Pero, Charlotte, Pyrha._
_Montsurry._ He will have pardon, sure.
_Tamyra._ Twere pittie else:
For though his great spirit something overflow,
All faults are still bo
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