showes they sticke and tyre 10
In what their free powers should be hot as fire.

_Henry._ Well, take your will, sir;--Ile have mine ere long.--
_Aversus._
But wherein is this Clermont such a rare one?

_Gui._ In his most gentle and unwearied minde,
Rightly to vertue fram'd in very nature; 15
In his most firme inexorable spirit
To be remov'd from any thing hee chuseth
For worthinesse; or beare the lest perswasion
To what is base, or fitteth not his object;
In his contempt of riches, and of greatnesse 20
In estimation of th'idolatrous vulgar;
His scorne of all things servile and ignoble,
Though they could gaine him never such advancement;
His liberall kinde of speaking what is truth,
In spight of temporising; the great rising 25
And learning of his soule so much the more
Against ill fortune, as shee set her selfe
Sharpe against him or would present most hard,
To shunne the malice of her deadliest charge;
His detestation of his speciall friends, 30
When he perceiv'd their tyrannous will to doe,
Or their abjection basely to sustaine
Any injustice that they could revenge;
The flexibilitie of his most anger,
Even in the maine careere and fury of it, 35
When any object of desertfull pittie
Offers it selfe to him; his sweet disposure,
As much abhorring to behold as doe
Any unnaturall and bloudy action;
His just contempt of jesters, parasites, 40
Servile observers, and polluted tongues--
In short, this Senecall man is found in him,
Hee may with heavens immortall powers compare,
To whom the day and fortune equall are;
Come faire or foule, whatever chance can fall, 45
Fixt in himselfe, hee still is one to all.

_Hen._ Showes he to others thus?

_Omnes._ To all that know him.

_Hen._ And apprehend I this man for a traitor?

_Gui._ These are your Machevilian villaines,
Your bastard Teucers, that, their mischiefes done, 50
Runne to your shield for shelter; Cacusses
That cut their too large murtherous theveries
To their dens length still. Woe be to that state
Where treacherie guards, and ruine makes men great!

_Hen._ Goe, take my letters for