AURELIO

Keep back ye close contrivers of false pleasures, Or I shall force you back—can it be possible Locked up and singly too, chased hospitality A ba quet in a bedchamber; Adurni! Dishonourable man. For you hereafter, O woman, lost to every brave report, Thy wronged Auria is come home with glory, Prepare a welcome to uncrown the greatness Of his prevailing fates, Peace factors, In merchandise of scorn, your sounds are deadly, Castanna, I could pity your consent To such ignoble practice, but I find. Course Fortune's easily seduced, and herein All claim to goodness ceases. Horror, Becoming such a forfeit of obedience, Hope not that any falsity in friendship Can palliate a broken faith, it dares not Leave in thy prayers (fair vow-breaking want on) To dress thy soul new, whose purer whiteness Is sullyd by thy change, from truth to folly. A fearful storm is hovering, it will fallen, No shelter can avoydit, let the guilty Sink under their own ruin. Such flourish Auria, Flies with so swift a gale, as it will wast Thy sudden joys into a faithless harbour. This is not Patience required in wrongs of such vile nature, You pity her, think rather on revenge. But I broke open the doors upon em. Adurni might have done the Like, but that The conscience of his fault in coward blood, blushed at the quick surprisal. 'Tis well you make such use of neighbours courtesy, Some kind of beasts are tame, and hug their injuries: Such way leads to a fame too. Wherefore that n, think ye, Can she absent her self, if she be blameless? You grant of course, your triumphs are proclaimed, And I in person told her your return. Where lies she hid the while? D'ee imagine I fawn upon your Fortune's, or intrude Upon the hope of bettering my estate, That you cashier me at a minutes warning? No, Auria, I dare vie with your respects, Put both into the balance, and the poise Shall make a settled stand, perhaps the proffer, So frankly vowed at your departure first Of settling me a partner in your purchase, Leads you into opinion of some ends Of mercenary falsehood, yet such wrong Lest suits a noble soul. Since then occasion Presents our discontinuance, use your liberty: For my partly I am resolute to die The same my life professed me. Roar louder The noise affrights not me, threaten your enemies, And prove a valiant tongue man—now must follow, by way of method, the exact condition Of rage which runs to mutiny in friendship. Auria come on, this weapon looks not pale At fight of that again hear and believe it, What I have done, was well done and well meant; Twenty times over, were it new to do. I de doo't and doo't, and boast the pains religious; Yet since you shake me off, I slightly valve Other sev rity. So doubtless, She may be soon discovered. Deserves the best of Fortune's; I ever spoke her virtuous. May it prove so. you may be plainer. You come not here to brave us. Doubt not But that I have delivered honest truth, As much as I believe, and justly witness. Honour and worthy actions, best beseem Their lips who practice both, and not discourse they. After confession follows— You do not yet deny that you solicited The Lady to ill purpose. My Lord. Worthy Malfato. My intelligence, Was issue of my doubts, not of my knowledge. A self confession may crave assistance, Let the Ladies justice impose the penance. So in the rules of friendship, as of love, Suspicion is not seldom and improper Advantage for the knitting faster joints Of faithfullest affection by the fevers Of casualty unloosed, where lastly error Hath run into the toil. Are you so nimble. This marriage frees Each circumstance of jealousy. You will pardon A rash and overbusy curiosity. Whats the matter? This is no place for murder, yield thy sword. Yield it, or force it; set you up your shambles Of slaughter in my presence. Had I been, No stranger to your bosom Sir, erenow You might have sorted me in your resolves, Companion of your Fortune's. Wants, so you said, And 'twas not friendly spoken, Auria take heed, the covert of a folly Willing to range; be not without excuse Discovered in the coinage of untruths. I use no harder language, thou art near Already on a shipwreck in forsaking The holy land of friendship in forsaking To talk your wants. Fie. Your show, Nor certainty, nor weak assurance yet Of reparation in this course: in case Command be proffered. There lives not then a friend Dares love you Like Aurelio, that Aurelio, Who and early; often said and truly, Your marriage with Spinella would entangle As much th'opinion endue to your discretion, As your estate, it hath done so to both. He who prescribes no law, No limits of condition to the objects Of his affection; but will merely wed A face because 'tis round, or limbed by nature In purest read and white, or at the best, For that his mistress owes and excellence Of qualities, knows when and how to speak, Where to keep silence, with fit reasons why, Whose virtues are her only dowry, else In either kind, ought of himself to master Such Fortune's as as add fuel to their loves For otherwise:—but herein I am idle, Have fooled to little purpose. And being so, it is not manly done To leave her to the trial of her wits, Her modesty, her innocence, her vows. This is the way that points her out and art Of wanton life. You form reasons, Just ones, for your abandoning the storms Which threaten your own ruin; but propose No shelter for her honour; what my tongue Hath uttered, Auria, is but honest doubt, And you are wise enough in the construction. Who? I your heir? your wife being yet so young, In every probability so forward To make you a father? leave such thoughts. I'll follow you to your horse. For that so, but you have a wife, a young, A fair wife; she, though free could never claim Right in prosperity, was never tempted By trial of extremes, to youth and beauty, Baits for dishonour, and a perished fame. glories in public view, but add to misery, Which travails in unrest at home. Umh.