must needs acknowledge it:
Then do not think it flatterie in your friends,
For if they had a heart, they could not want a tongue.
Erota:
Is this your Brother _Annophil_?
Annophel:
Yes Madam.
Erota:
Your name's _Antinous_?
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Antinous:
I am (Lady) that most unfortunate man.
Erota:
How unfortunate? are you not the Souldier,
The Captain of those Captains, that did bring
Conquest and Victory home along with you?
Antinous:
I had some share in't; but was the least
Of the least worthy.
Gonzalo:
O Sir, in your modesty you'ld make
A double Conquest: I was an ear-witness
When this young man spoke lesser than he acted,
And had the Souldiers voice to help him out:
But that the Law compell'd him for his honour,
To inforce him make a claim for his reward,
I well perceive he would have stood the man
That he does now, buried his worth in silence.
Erota:
Sir, I hearken not to him, but look on you,
And find more in you than he can relate:
You shall attend on me.
Antinous:
Madam, your pardon.
Erota:
Deny it not Sir, for it is more honour
Than you have gotten i'th' field: for know you shall,
Upon _Erota's_ asking, serve _Erota_.
Antinous:
I may want answers, Lady,
But never want a will to do you service.
I came here to my Sister, to take leave,
Having enjoyn'd my self to banishment,
For some cause that hereafter you may hear,
And wish with me I had not the occasion.
Annophel:
There shall be no occasion to divide us:
Dear Madam for my sake use your power,
Even for the service that he ought to owe,
Must, and does owe to you, his friends, and country.
Erota:
Upon your Loyalty to the state and me,
I do command you Sir, not depart Candy:
Am I not your Princess?
Antinous:
You are a great Lady.
Erota:
Then shew your self a Servant and a Subject.
Antinous:
I am your vassal.
Mochingo:
You are a Coward; I that dare not fight,
Scorn to be vassail to any Prince in _Europe_:
Great is my heart with pride, which I'le encrease
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Attendants:
The noble _Cassilane_ is come to see you Madam.
Decius:
There's comfort in thos
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