{ _Monsieur_.
The ghost[s] of { _Guise_.
{ _Card. Guise_.
{ _Shattilion_.

_Countesse_ of Cambray.
_Tamyra_, wife to Montsureau.
_Charlotte [D'Ambois]_, wife to Baligny.
_Riova_, a Servant [to the Countesse].

[SCENE: _Paris, and in or near Cambrai_.]

The Revenge
of
Bussy D'Ambois

A
Tragedie

ACTUS PRIMI SCAENA PRIMA.

_A Room at the Court in Paris._]

_Enter Baligny, Renel._

_Baligny._ To what will this declining kingdome turne,
Swindging in every license, as in this
Stupide permission of brave D'Ambois Murther?
Murther made paralell with Law! Murther us'd
To serve the kingdome, given by sute to men 5
For their advancement! suffered scarcrow-like
To fright adulterie! what will policie
At length bring under his capacitie?

_Renel._ All things; for as, when the high births of Kings,
Deliverances, and coronations, 10
We celebrate with all the cities bels
Jangling together in untun'd confusion,
All order'd clockes are tyed up; so, when glory,
Flatterie, and smooth applauses of things ill,
Uphold th'inordinate swindge of downe-right power, 15
Justice, and truth that tell the bounded use,
Vertuous and well distinguisht formes of time,
Are gag'd and tongue-tide. But wee have observ'd
Rule in more regular motion: things most lawfull
Were once most royall; Kings sought common good, 20
Mens manly liberties, though ne'er so meane,
And had their owne swindge so more free, and more.
But when pride enter'd them, and rule by power,
All browes that smil'd beneath them, frown'd; hearts griev'd
By imitation; vertue quite was vanisht, 25
And all men studi'd selfe-love, fraud, and vice.
Then no man could be good but he was punisht.
Tyrants, being still more fearefull of the good
Then of the bad, their subjects vertues ever
Manag'd with curbs and dangers, and esteem'd 30
As shadowes and detractions to their owne.

_Bal._ Now all is peace, no danger, now what followes?
Idlenesse rusts us, since no vertuous labour
Ends ought rewarded; ease, securitie,
Now all the palme weares. Wee made warre before 35
So to prevent warre; men with giving gifts,
More then receiving, made our countrey strong;