.
Why wander I so farre? here, here was she
That was a whole world without spot to me,
Though now a world of spots. Oh what a lightning 185
Is mans delight in women! What a bubble
He builds his state, fame, life on, when he marries!
Since all earths pleasures are so short and small,
The way t'enjoy it is t'abjure it all.
Enough! I must be messenger my selfe, 190
Disguis'd like this strange creature. In, Ile after,
To see what guilty light gives this cave eyes,
And to the world sing new impieties.

_He puts the Frier in the vault and follows. She raps her
self in the arras._

_Exeunt [Servants]._

LINENOTES:

_by the haire_. A omits.

1-4 _O, help . . . my lord_. A omits.

21 _than that_. A, than it.

28 _secret_. A, hateful.

32 _tread_. A, touch.

35 _your terrors_. A omits.

35-6 _Good . . . distracted_. B punctuates:--

Good father cease: your terrors
Tempt not a man distracted.

40 _Heaven_. A, God. _you_. A, ye.

42-4 _Father . . . safety_. A omits.

45 _brest_. A, heart.

46 _Stand [in] the opening_. Emend, ed.; A, Ope the
seven-times heat; B, Stand the opening.

48 _woes_. A, cares.

51 _devouring_. A, enraged.

60 _Heaven_. A, God.

68 _rig'd with quench for_. A, laden for thy.

91 _devoure_. A, distract. _consort_. A, state.

95 _faults_. A, sins.

129 _with any shew . . . cruelty_. A omits.

140 _ever_. A, still.

141 _parallel_. A, like in ill.

_Enter Servants._ A omits.

_with a sword drawne_. A omits.

_Falls and dies._ A omits.

174 _worthy_. A, innocent.

_He . . . arras._ _Exeunt._ A omits; B places _He
. . . arras_ after _Exeunt_.

[SCENA SECUNDA.

_A Room in Montsurry's House._]

_Enter Monsieur and Guise._

_Monsieur._ Now shall we see that Nature hath no end
In her great works responsive to their worths;
That she, that makes so many eyes and soules
To see and fore-see, is stark blind her selfe;
And as illiterate men say Latine prayers