25
For his late treachrous apprehension,
She wept her faire eyes from her ivory browes,
And would have wept her soule out, had not I
Promist to bring her to this mortall quarrie,
That by her lost eyes for her servants love 30
She might conjure him from this sterne attempt,
In which (by a most ominous dreame shee had)
Shee knowes his death fixt, and that never more
Out of this place the sunne shall see him live.

_Char._ I am provided, then, to take his place 35
And undertaking on me.

_Ren._ You sir, why?

_Char._ Since I am charg'd so by my mistresse,
His mournfull sister.

_Tam._ See her letter, sir. _Hee reades._
Good madame, I rue your fate more then mine,
And know not how to order these affaires, 40
They stand on such occurrents.

_Ren._ This, indeede,
I know to be your lady mistresse hand;
And know besides, his brother will and must
Indure no hand in this revenge but his.

_Enter Umbr[a] Bussy._

_Umbra._ Away, dispute no more; get up, and see! 45
Clermont must auchthor this just tragedie.

_Coun._ Who's that?

_Ren._ The spirit of Bussy.

_Tam._ O my servant!
Let us embrace.

_Umb._ Forbeare! The ayre, in which
My figures liknesse is imprest, will blast.
Let my revenge for all loves satisfie, 50
In which, dame, feare not, Clermont shall not dye.
No word dispute more; up, and see th'event. _Exeunt Ladyes._
Make the guard sure, Renel; and then the doores
Command to make fast, when the Earle is in. _Exit Ren[el]._
The blacke soft-footed houre is now on wing, 55
Which, for my just wreake, ghosts shall celebrate
With dances dire and of infernall state. _Exit._

LINENOTES:

2 _loved_. Shepherd, Phelps; Q, lou'd.

4 _her service_. Ed.; Q, her vertuous service;
vertuous, which is obviously hypermetrical, has been
repeated by mistake from the previous line.

47-48. Three lines in Q, broken at _Bussy_, _embrace_,
_which_.

[SCAENA QUARTA.

_An Ante-room to the Council-Chamber._]

_Enter Guise._

_Guise._ Who sayes that death is