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(Enter Aurelius and Soldiers.)

AURELIUS.
Though we searched the whole of the mountain,
Not one more have we arrested.

POLEMIUS.
Take this prisoner here to Rome,
And be sure that you remember
All of you my strict commands,
That no hand shall dare divest him
Of his veil:-- [Chrysanthus is led out.
Why, why, O heavens! [aside.
Do I pause, but from my breast here
Tear my bleeding heart? How act
In so dreadful a dilemma?
If I say who he is, I tarnish
With his guilt my name for ever,
And my loyalty if I 'm silent,
Since he being here transgresses
By that fact alone the edict:
Shall I punish him? The offender
Is my son. Shall I free him? He
Is my enemy and a rebel:--
If between these two extremes
Some mean lies, I cannot guess it.
As a father I must love him,
And as a judge I must condemn him. [Exeunt.

ACT THE SECOND.

SCENE I.
A hall in the house of Polemius.

Enter Claudius and Escarpin.

CLAUDIUS.
Has he not returned? Can no one
Guess in the remotest manner[8]
Where he is?

ESCARPIN.
Sir, since the day
That you left me with my master
In Diana's grove, and I
Had with that divinest charmer
To leave him, no eye has seen him.
Love alone knows how it mads me.

CLAUDIUS.
Of your loyalty I doubt not.

ESCARPIN.
Loyalty 's a different matter,
'T is not wholly that.

CLAUDIUS.
What then?

ESCARPIN.
Dark suspicions, dismal fancies,
That perhaps to live with her
He lies hid within those gardens.

CLAUDIUS.
If I could imagine that,
I, Escarpin, would be gladdened
Rather than depressed.

ESCARPIN.
I 'm not:--
I am filled, like a full barrel,
With depressions.

CLAUDIUS.
And for what?

ESCARPIN.
Certain wild chimeras haunt me,
Jealousy doth tear my heart,
And despairing love distracts me.

CLAUDIUS.
You in love and jealous?

ESCARPIN.
I
Jealous and in love. Why marvel?
Am I such a monster?

CLAUDIUS.
What!
With Daria?

ESCARPIN.
'T is no matter
What her name is, or Daria
Or Maria, I would have her
Both subjective and subjunctive,
She verb passive, I verb active.

CLAUDIUS.
You to love so rare a beauty?

ESCARPIN.
Yes, her beauty, though uncommon,
Would lack something, if it had not
My devotion.

CLAUDIUS.
How? explain:--

ESCARPIN.
Well, I prove it in this manner:--