s this need not have been delivered with such a caution;
I'le do it.

_Arb_.

There is more yet,
Wilt thou be faith[f]ul to me?

_Mar_.

Sir, if I take upon me to deliver it, after I hear it, I'le pass
through fire to do it.

_Arb_.

I love her better than a Brother ought;
Dost thou conceive me?

_Mar_.

I hope you do not Sir.

_Arb_.

No, thou art dull, kneel down before her,
And ne'r rise again, till she will love me.

_Mar_.

Why, I think she does.

_Arb_.

But better than she does, another way;
As wives love Husbands.

_Mar_.

Why, I think there are few Wives that love their
Husbands better than she does you.

_Arb_.

Thou wilt not understand me: is it fit
This should be uttered plainly? take it then
Naked as it is: I would desire her love
Lasciviously, lewdly, incestuously,
To do a sin that needs must damn us both,
And thee too: dost thou understand me now?

_Mar_.

Yes, there's your Ring again; what have I done
Dishonestly in my whole life, name it,
That you should put so base a business to me?

_Arb_.

Didst thou not tell me thou wouldst do it?

_Mar_.

Yes; if I undertook it, but if all
My hairs were lives, I would not be engag'd
In such a case to save my last life.

_Arb_.

O guilt! ha how poor and weak a thing art thou!
This man that is my servant, whom my breath
Might blow upon the world, might beat me here
Having this cause, whil'st I prest down with sin
Could not resist him: hear _Mardonius_,
It was a motion mis-beseeming man,
And I am sorry for it.

_Mar_.

Heaven grant you may be so: you must understand, nothing that you
can utter, can remove my love and service from my Prince. But
otherwise, I think I shall not love you more. For you are sinful,
and if you do this crime, you ought to have no Laws. For after
this, it will be great injustice in you to punish any offender
for any crime. For my self I find my heart too big: I feel I have
not patience to look on whilst you run these forbidden courses.
Means I have none but your favour, and I am rather glad that I
shall lose 'em both together, than keep 'em with such conditions;
I shall find a dwelling amongst some people, where though our
Garments perhaps be courser, we shall be richer far within, and
harbour no such vices in 'em: the Gods preserve you, and mend.

_Arb_.

_Mardonius_, stay _Mardonius_, for tho