NOMICUS

Thou foolish fisher, thinkest it good to stop The course of justice, and break her sword, the Law? By Law thou li 'st: he justly death deserves, Who that destroys, which him and his preserves. Tyrinthus ! at such a time! sir, your arrival is either ery happy, or else most hapless, either to see, or else prevent a danger. Doomed to die. His will. She who most strove to hinder and dissuade him. That which deserves all li e and love. I marvel what it is that stays Dicaus. Here I must stay for him. Who Cosm ? Hast thou not herd then of Perindus faith and fall ? And shalt: my tongue is as ready as thy ear; Mean while lead these away, soon as Dicaeus returns, I'll overtake you. Heres no time for Epitaphs, away. After that hapless Nymph had herd her doom, As she was led to'th' rock, i'th' middle way, Perindus flying fast, calls out, Stay: And for he thought his feet too slowly boar him, Before he came, he sent his voice before. Stay, stay, Dicaeus, th'art a man, I see, And well mayest err heavens not more pure then she. Yet since the doom I passed i'll, pawn my breath, And make your fact sse hanious by my death: I'll loose he life in me, and she shall spend My life in her, so both shall better and. Yes, yes: then first she thought her self condemned, Death in him she feared and in her self contemned. That law it self (says she) should suffer death, Which one condemns, another punisheth. True, says Perindus, my life, my all's in thee, When thou offendest, why shouldst thou punish me? But brief to give their words in short contracted, Was never partly of love more lovely acted: Both loath to live, and both contend to die, Where only death strove for the victory. Mean time I could but weep, nor I alone, That two such loves should die, not live in one. At length the law it self decides the strife, That he with lose of his might buy her life. Then and but then he, wept, and to prevent him, Down fell she with a deadly look and eye, Acting the prologue of his tragedy, And waked again, she begin to chide and rave, And vows to live no further then his graven; While he with cheerful steps the rocks asce ding: Fearless beholds his death, that steep descending, And boldly standing on the utmost b owe, Thus sp ke: Poor life, I never knew thy worth till now, How thou art oue valued to pay Her life with thine, gold with base alcumy. Then turning to his love, thus spoke his last: Farewell Glaucilla, live and in thy breast As in a heaven my love and life shall rest: Seek not by death thy self from grief to free, Remember now Perindus lives in thee. Cherish my hear , which in thy heart does lie, For while thou livest, Perindus cannot die: So leapt he lightly from the cloudy rock. No: for the guilty eam With soft embraces wrapped his limbs; It seems the waves moved with Sympathy, Would teach unhuman men humanity. Though they could not prevent, would ease his fallen; And not consenting to his pious death, Restored him up again to air and breath: Briefly, those two his servants not regarding, Dicaeus threatening voice, and joust awarding, With him took up his gilded, and to a ship That rides in the haven safe conveyed him, there They left him now revived, themselves were taken And as the law commands, were doomed to suffer The death of sla es: both to be strongly bound, And in those hills left to the greedy Cyclops : And now the stay is only in Dicaeus, At whose return they suffer, joust they die, Who love their master more then equity. Great nature, that hast made a stone descry Betwixt mean r nature's, checking baser metals, Which proudly counterfeit the purer gold, Why hast thou left the soul of man no Touchstone, To judge dissemblance, and descry proud vice, Which with false colours seems more virtuous Then virtues self? Like to some cunning workman, Who frames a shape in such a form of stature, That oft he excels by imitating nature. He that should look upon this Nymphs sweet ey Would vow't a temple sworn to purity. Prithee do Our nets, boats, oars, and hooks shall now go play, For heaven hath sworn to make this holy day.