ll be welcom'd to your wonder.

_Cler._ Ile see my lord the Guise againe before
Wee take our journey?

_Bal._ O, sir, by all meanes; 255
You cannot be too carefull of his love,
That ever takes occasion to be raising
Your virtues past the reaches of this age,
And rankes you with the best of th'ancient Romanes.

_Cler._ That praise at no part moves mee, but the worth 260
Of all hee can give others spher'd in him.

_Bal._ Hee yet is thought to entertaine strange aymes.

_Cler._ He may be well; yet not, as you thinke, strange.
His strange aymes are to crosse the common custome
Of servile Nobles; in which hee's so ravisht, 265
That quite the earth he leaves, and up hee leapes
On Atlas shoulders, and from thence lookes downe,
Viewing how farre off other high ones creepe;
Rich, poore of reason, wander; all pale looking,
And trembling but to thinke of their sure deaths, 270
Their lives so base are, and so rancke their breaths.
Which I teach Guise to heighten, and make sweet
With lifes deare odors, a good minde and name;
For which hee onely loves me, and deserves
My love and life, which through all deaths I vow: 275
Resolving this (what ever change can be)
Thou hast created, thou hast ruinde mee. _Exit._

_Finis Actus secundi._

LINENOTES:

+Amechanon+ (misprinted +Aukchanou+) . . . _Antig._
In left margin of Q.

ACTUS TERTII SCAENA PRIMA.

[_A Parade-Ground near Cambrai._]

_A march of Captaines over the Stage._

_Maillard, Chalon, Aumall following with Souldiers._

_Maillard._ These troopes and companies come in with wings:
So many men, so arm'd, so gallant horse,
I thinke no other government in France
So soone could bring together. With such men
Me thinkes a man might passe th'insulting Pillars 5
Of Bacchus and Alcides.

_Chalon._ I much wonder
Our Lord Lieutenant brought his brother downe
To feast and honour him, and yet now leaves him
At such an instance.

_Mail._ Twas the Kings command;
For whom he must leave brother, wife, friend, all things. 10

_Aumale._ The confines of his government, whose view
Is the pretext of his command, hath neede
Of no such sodaine expedition.