jects: forth, I beseech thee.

_Per._ To tell you truth, my lord, I have made 200
a strange discovery.

_Mons._ Excellent Pero, thou reviv'st me; may I
sink quick to perdition if my tongue discover it!

_Per._ Tis thus, then: this last night my lord
lay forth, and I, watching my ladies sitting up, 205
stole up at midnight from my pallat, and (having
before made a hole both through the wall and
arras to her inmost chamber) I saw D'Ambois
and her selfe reading a letter!

_Mons._ D'Ambois! 210

_Per._ Even he, my lord.

_Mons._ Do'st thou not dreame, wench?

_Per._ I sweare he is the man.

_Mons._ The devill he is, and thy lady his dam!
Why this was the happiest shot that ever flewe; 215
the just plague of hypocrisie level'd it. Oh, the
infinite regions betwixt a womans tongue and
her heart! is this our Goddesse of chastity? I
thought I could not be so sleighted, if she had
not her fraught besides, and therefore plotted this 220
with her woman, never dreaming of D'Amboys.
Deare Pero, I will advance thee for ever: but
tell me now--Gods pretious, it transformes mee
with admiration--sweet Pero, whom should she
trust with this conveyance? Or, all the dores 225
being made sure, how should his conveyance be
made?

_Per._ Nay, my lord, that amazes me: I cannot
by any study so much as guesse at it.

_Mons._ Well, let's favour our apprehensions 230
with forbearing that a little; for, if my heart
were not hoopt with adamant, the conceipt of
this would have burst it: but heark thee. _Whispers._

_Mont._ I pray thee, resolve mee: the Duke
will never imagine that I am busie about's wife: 235
hath D'Ambois any privy accesse to her?

_An._ No, my lord, D'Ambois neglects her (as
shee takes it) and is therefore suspicious that
either your lady, or the lady Beaupre, hath
closely entertain'd him. 240

_Mont._ Ber lady, a likely suspition, and very
neere the life--especially of my wife.

_Mons._ Come, we'l disguise all with seeming
onely to have courted.--Away, dry palm! sh'as
a livor as dry as a bisket; a man may goe a 245
whole voyage with her, and get nothing but
tem