But now adore thee: losse of such a friend 200
None should survive, of such a brother [none.]
With my false husband live, and both these slaine!
Ere I returne to him, Ile turne to earth.

_Enter Renel leading the Countesse._

_Ren._ Horror of humane eyes! O Clermont D'Ambois!
Madame, wee staid too long, your servant's slaine. 205

_Coun._ It must be so; he liv'd but in the Guise,
As I in him. O follow life mine eyes!

_Tam._ Hide, hide thy snakie head; to cloisters flie;
In pennance pine; too easie tis to die.

_Char._ It is. In cloisters then let's all survive. 210
Madame, since wrath nor griefe can helpe these fortunes,
Let us forsake the world in which they raigne,
And for their wisht amends to God complaine.

_Count._ Tis fit and onely needfull: leade me on;
In heavens course comfort seeke, in earth is none. _Exeunt._ 215

_Enter Henry, Espernone, Soissone, and others._

_Henry._ Wee came indeede too late, which much I rue,
And would have kept this Clermont as my crowne.
Take in the dead, and make this fatall roome
(The house shut up) the famous D'Ambois tombe. _Exeunt._

_FINIS._

LINENOTES:

_opens_. Emended by ed.; Q, opes.

25 _Nobleman_. Two words in Q.

29 _Cler._ _Here, then._ Placed by Q at the end of l.
29.

44 _bravos_. Emended by ed.; Q, braves.

73-74. Three lines in Q, broken at _conquest_, _it_, and
_fortune_.

88-89. Three lines in Q, broken at _yet_, _him_, and _me_.

125 _Shattilions_. Ed.; Q, Shattilians.

144 _accursed_. Shepherd, Phelps; Q, accurst.

201 _none_. Added by ed.

210 _Char_. Shepherd, Phelps; Q, Cler.

Notes to The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois

_For the meaning of single words see the Glossary._

=168. To the right vertuous . . . Sr. Thomas Howard, &c.= Thomas Howard,
born before 1594, was the second son of the first Earl of Suffolk. He
was created a Knight of the Bath in January, 1605, and in May, 1614, was
appointed Master of the Horse to Charles, Prince of Wales. In 1622 he
became Viscount Andover, and in 1626 Earl of Berkshire. He held a number
of posts till the outbreak of the Civil War, and after the Restoration
was appointed Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles II, and Pri