Who knowes with what wounds in my heart for woe
Of your so wounded faith I made these wounds,
Forc't to it by an insolence of force 45
To stirre a stone; nor is a rocke, oppos'd
To all the billowes of the churlish sea,
More beate and eaten with them then was I
With your ambitious, mad idolatrie;
And this bloud I shed is to save the bloud 50
Of many thousands.
_Gui._ That's your white pretext;
But you will finde one drop of bloud shed lawlesse
Will be the fountaine to a purple sea.
The present lust and shift made for Kings lives,
Against the pure forme and just power of law, 55
Will thrive like shifters purchases; there hangs
A blacke starre in the skies, to which the sunne
Gives yet no light, will raine a poyson'd shower
Into your entrailes, that will make you feele
How little safetie lies in treacherous steele. 60
_Hen._ Well, sir, Ile beare it; y'have a brother to
Bursts with like threates, the skarlet Cardinall--
Seeke, and lay hands on him; and take this hence,
Their blouds, for all you, on my conscience! _Exit._
_Gui._ So, sir, your full swindge take; mine death hath curb'd. 65
Clermont, farewell! O didst thou see but this!
But it is better; see by this the ice
Broke to thine owne bloud, which thou wilt despise
When thou hear'st mine shed. Is there no friend here
Will beare my love to him?
_Aumale._ I will, my lord. 70
_Gui._ Thankes with my last breath: recommend me, then,
To the most worthy of the race of men. _Dyes. Exeunt._
[SCAENA QUINTA.
_A Room in Montsurry's House._]
_Enter Monts[urry] and Tamyra._
_Montsurry._ Who have you let into my house?
_Tamyra._ I? none.
_Mont._ Tis false; I savour the rancke bloud of foes
In every corner.
_Tam._ That you may doe well;
It is the bloud you lately shed you smell.
_Mont._ Sdeath! the vault opens. _The gulfe opens._
_Tam._ What vault? hold your sword. 5
_Clermont ascends._
_Clermont._ No, let him use it.
_Mont._ Treason! murther! murther!
_Cler._ Exclaime not; tis in vaine, and base in y
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