or love is hatefull
without love againe.

_The Vault opens_. B places this after 173; A omits.

177-181 _See . . . in_. Instead of these lines, A has:--

See, see the gulfe is opening that will
swallow
Me and my fame forever; I will in.

_with a book_. A omits.

266 _wakes_. A, sits.

274 _Made some deepe scruple_. A, Was something troubled.

275 _honour_. A, hand.

278-280 _his long love . . . perfections_. A omits.

280 _ready_. A omits.

286 _good_. A, comfort.

ACTUS TERTII SCENA PRIMA.

[_A Room in Montsurry's House._]

_Enter D'Ambois, Tamyra, with a chaine of pearle._

_Bussy._ Sweet mistresse, cease! your conscience is too nice,
And bites too hotly of the Puritane spice.

_Tamyra._ O, my deare servant, in thy close embraces
I have set open all the dores of danger
To my encompast honour, and my life: 5
Before I was secure against death and hell;
But now am subject to the heartlesse feare
Of every shadow, and of every breath,
And would change firmnesse with an aspen leafe:
So confident a spotlesse conscience is, 10
So weake a guilty. O, the dangerous siege
Sinne layes about us, and the tyrannie
He exercises when he hath expugn'd!
Like to the horror of a winter's thunder,
Mixt with a gushing storme, that suffer nothing 15
To stirre abroad on earth but their own rages,
Is sinne, when it hath gathered head above us;
No roofe, no shelter can secure us so,
But he will drowne our cheeks in feare or woe.

_Buss._ Sin is a coward, madam, and insults 20
But on our weaknesse, in his truest valour:
And so our ignorance tames us, that we let
His shadowes fright us: and like empty clouds
In which our faulty apprehensions forge
The formes of dragons, lions, elephants, 25
When they hold no proportion, the slie charmes
Of the witch policy makes him like a monster
Kept onely to shew men for servile money:
That false hagge often paints him in her cloth
Ten times more monstrous than he is in troth. 30
In three of us the secret of our meeting
Is onely guarded, and three friends as one
Have ever beene esteem'd, as our