So ignorant? first hear, and then consider.
That I begot him, gave him birth and life,
And education, were, I must confess,
But duties of a Father: I did more;
I taught him how to manage Arms, to dare
An Enemy; to court both death and dangers;
Yet these were but additions to compleat
A well accomplish'd Souldier: I did more yet.
I made him chief Commander in the field
Next to my self, and gave him the full prospeft
Of honour, and preferment; train'd him up
In all perfections of a Martiallist:
But he unmindful of his gratitude,
You know with what contempt of my deserts,
First kick'd against mine honour, scorned all
My services; then got the palm of glory
Unto himself: yet not content with this,
He (lastly) hath conspir'd my death, and sought
Means to engage me to this Lady's debt,
Whose bounty all my whole estate could never
Give satisfaction to: now honoured Fathers,
For this cause only, if your Law be law,
And you the Ministers of justice; then
Think of this strange ingratitude in him.

Philander:

Can this be so _Antinous_?

Antinous:

'Tis all true,
Nor hath my much wrong'd father limn'd my faults
In colours half so black, as in themselves,
My guilt hath dy'd them: were there mercy left,
Yet mine own shame would be my Executioner:
Lords, I am guilty.

Erota:

Thou beliest, _Antinous_,
Thine innocence: alas, my Lords, he's desperate,
And talks he knows not what: you must not credit
290] His lunacy; I can my self disprove
This accusation: _Cassilane_, be yet
More mercifull; I beg it.

Cassilanes:

Time, not fate,
The world, or what is in it, shall not alter
My resolution: he shall dye.

Erota:

The Senats
Prayers, or weeping Lovers, shall not alter
My resolution: thou shalt dye.

Antinous:

Why Madam,
Are ye all Marble?

Possenne:

Leave your shifts _Antinous_,
What plead you to your Fathers accusation?

Antinous:

Most fully guilty.

Possenne:

You have doom'd your self,
We cannot quit you now.

Cassilanes:

A burthen'd conscience
Will never need a hang-man: hadst thou dar'd
To have deni'd it, then this Sword of mine
Should on thy head have prov'd thy tongue a