paire, and know most truely,
With all the ceremonies of her favour,
She sure expects mee.
_Mail._ Thinke you now on that?
_Cler._ On that, sir? I, and that so worthily, 120
That if the King, in spight of your great service,
Would send me instant promise of enlargement,
Condition I would set this message by,
I would not take it, but had rather die.
_Aum._ Your message shall be done, sir: I, my selfe, 125
Will be for you a messenger of ill.
_Cler._ I thanke you, sir, and doubt not yet to live
To quite your kindnesse.
_Aum._ Meane space use your spirit
And knowledge for the chearfull patience
Of this so strange and sodaine consequence. 130
_Cler._ Good sir, beleeve that no particular torture
Can force me from my glad obedience
To any thing the high and generall Cause,
To match with his whole fabricke, hath ordainde;
And know yee all (though farre from all your aymes, 135
Yet worth them all, and all mens endlesse studies)
That in this one thing, all the discipline
Of manners and of manhood is contain'd:--
A man to joyne himselfe with th'Universe
In his maine sway, and make (in all things fit) 140
One with that all, and goe on round as it;
Not plucking from the whole his wretched part,
And into straites, or into nought revert,
Wishing the compleate Universe might be
Subject to such a ragge of it as hee; 145
But to consider great Necessitie
All things, as well refract as voluntarie,
Reduceth to the prime celestiall cause;
Which he that yeelds to with a mans applause,
And cheeke by cheeke goes, crossing it no breath, 150
But like Gods image followes to the death,
That man is truely wise, and every thing
(Each cause and every part distinguishing)
In nature with enough art understands,
And that full glory merits at all hands 155
That doth the whole world at all parts adorne,
And appertaines to one celestiall borne. _Exeunt omnes._
LINENOTES:
_Exeunt._ Q, Exit.
54 _We're_. Q, We'are.
[SCAENA SECUNDA.
_A Room at the Court in Paris._]
_Enter Baligny, Renel._
_Baligny._ So foule a scandall never man sustain'd,
Which caus'd by th'King is rude and tyrannous:
Giv
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