Upon my life it is: and I do hope,
Your Highness will not tye me to a man,
That in the heat of wooing throws me off,
And takes another.
_Di_. What should this mean?
_King_. If it be true,
That Lady had been better have embrac'd
Cureless Diseases; get you to your rest,
[_Ex_. Are. _and _Bel.
You shall be righted: Gentlemen draw near,
We shall imploy you: Is young _Pharamond_
Come to his lodging?
_Di_. I saw him enter there.
_King_. Haste some of you, and cunningly discover,
If Megra be in her lodging.
_Cle_. Sir,
She parted hence but now with other Ladies.
_King_. If she be there, we shall not need to make
A vain discovery of our suspicion.
You gods I see, that who unrighteously
Holds wealth or state from others, shall be curst,
In that, which meaner men are blest withall:
Ages to come shall know no male of him
Left to inherit, and his name shall be
Blotted from earth; If he have any child,
It shall be crossly matched: the gods themselves
Shall sow wild strife betwixt her Lord and her,
Yet, if it be your wills, forgive the sin
I have committed, let it not fall
Upon this understanding child of mine,
She has not broke your Laws; but how can I,
Look to be heard of gods, that must be just,
Praying upon the ground I hold by wrong?
[ _Enter _Dion.
_Di_. Sir, I have asked, and her women swear she is within,
but they I think are bawds; I told 'em I must speak
with her: they laught, and said their Lady lay speechless.
I said, my business was important; they said their Lady
was about it: I grew hot, and cryed my business was a
matter that concern'd life and death; they answered, so
was sleeping, at which their Lady was; I urg'd again, she
had scarce time to be so since last I saw her; they smil'd
again, and seem'd to instruct me, that s
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