strangely
She did for me, but you will think I brag.

_Mar_.

I do I'le be sworn. Thy valour and thy passions sever'd, would
have made two excellent fellows in their kinds: I know not
whether I should be sorry thou art so valiant, or so passionate,
wou'd one of 'em were away.

_Tigr_.

Do I refuse her that I doubt her worth?
Were she as vertuous as she would be thought,
So perfect that no one of her own sex
Could find a want, had she so tempting fair,
That she could wish it off for damning souls,
I would pay any ransom, twenty lives
Rather than meet her married in my bed.
Perhaps I have a love, where I have fixt
Mine eyes not to be mov'd, and she on me,
I am not fickle.

_Arb_.

Is that all the cause?
Think you, you can so knit your self in love
To any other, that her searching sight
Cannot dissolve it? So before you tri'd,
You thought your self a match for me in [f]ight,
Trust me _Tigranes_, she can do as much
In peace, as I in war, she'l conquer too,
You shall see if you have the power to stand
The force of her swift looks, if you dislike,
I'le send you home with love, and name your ransom
Some other way, but if she be your choice,
She frees you: To _Iberia_ you must.

_Tigr_.

Sir, I have learn'd a prisoners sufferance,
And will obey, but give me leave to talk
In private with some friends before I go.

_Arb_.

Some to await him forth, and see him safe,
But let him freely send for whom he please,
And none dare to disturb his conference,
I will not have him know what bondage is,

[_Exit Tigranes_.

Till he be free from me. This Prince, _Mardonius_,
Is full of wisdom, valour, all the graces
Man can receive.

_Mar_.

And yet you conquer'd him.

_Arb_.

And yet I conquer'd him, and could have don't
Hadst thou joyn'd with him, though thy name in Arms
Be great; must all men that are vertuous
Think suddenly to match themselves with me?
I conquered him and bravely, did I not?

_Bes_.

And please your Majesty, I was afraid at first.

_Mar_.

When wert thou other?

_Arb_.

Of what?

_Bes_.

That you would not have spy'd your best advantages, for your
Majesty in my opinion lay too high, methinks, under favour, you
should have lain thus.

_Mar_.

Like a Taylor at a wake.

_Bes_.

And then, if please your Majesty to remember, at