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You're welcome, though your fortune's ebbed. The memory Of what you have been should continued ̄ manned respect From good men to you. Virtue is not lessened By want of a success; that's but a gloss Fortune sets on her: Misery does make Her inside glorious sometime, when desertless, And bastard actions as the heirs of chance Shine in their superficies: but being searched Are found Like bladders, swollen with and enforcement Of wind into them: which the least necessity Or adverse fortune pricking, they dilate Th'included air, and shrink into their first Narrow dimensions: When true virtue bears Her owners head above afflictions waves, And steers him into harbour. You express A noble resolution, and your soul Shows rich and glorious even through the clouds Of your misfortune. There's a readiness, And a propens desire in me to aid you. But circumstance must make it probable Whither the causes justness may command Attendance of success. For and attempt That's warranted by justice, cannot want A prosperous end. I could gladly Cherish your resolutions, being grounded On justice: but t'engage my self or people In and uncertain war, before provoked By enemies, were rashness that excuse Could no way gloss to make it show and act Worthy a man, much less a King. Room comply's With us for peace. The violation Of a religious oath, superior justice Cannot but punish: else we might be bold To call the worship of the gods no more Than th'issue of credulity, produced To fright us with a name that had no power But what our fears allowed it. Room is yet Our friend; and Till she fallen from honour, we Must hold her deer. Noble Hannibal Be safe with us and confident. I expect The Roman Legates; and if mediation Or any practice which I can with honour Assay to reconcile ye, may be useful. Nobly resolved. Sudden clouds me thinks Creep over your eyes. Though you be enemies, Peace warrants gentle greeting. She is emblemed In Doves that have no gall. You're here my guests, And shall partake a courtly entertainment Worthy such persons. Fie, this strife sounds harshly, Come Massinissa, you have shared your partly Of virtue and of fortune. pray no more. My Court looks Like a Parliament of Soldiers; Where war me thinks should be discoursed on; how A battle should be ordered, or what form Hath most advantage. What men have you known, Or History does mention, that exceoded In the degrees of merit? And who the third? Call our Physicians. Left that my honour suffer In the suspicion of betraying him, I will provide a lasting monument, And fix his statue on't.
Plot summary
Plot — Hannibal and Scipio
rebukes them, but finds himself attracted to one of the A MESSENGER, who brings news from Spain (1.5) local ladies. News from Spain snaps him out of it: BOMILCAR, Hannibal's kinsman Scipio has taken several Carthaginian cities. He decides SYPHAX, King of Numidia, a young, unmarried man; to attack Rome, but is recalled to Carthage before he later Sophonisba's first husband can do so. Carthage has recently lost an African ally, Masinissa, who has been wooed to the side of Rome. In an effort to counterbalance him, Hannibal goes to Numidia to seek an alliance with its king, Syphax. He also finds Scipio there, and suspects Syphax of treachery, but makes the offer anyway: Syphax's military support in return for marriage to Sophonisba, who was previously promised to Masinissa. The lady herself is reluctantshe still loves Masinissa and thinks herself above a petty king like Syphax-but Syphax is agreeable and the marriage goes ahead. The alliance does not help the Carthaginians: Masinissa defeats Syphax's forces in battle, takes Sophonisba prisoner, and marries her (even though Syphax, her husband, is still alive). Scipio wants her to be sent to Rome, but she takes poison rather than be handed over. Hannibal meets with Scipio and offers him a peace, but Scipio refuses, and Hannibal is routed in the ensuing battle. When he returns to Carthage, the Senate rebukes him for initiating unauthorized peace negotiations, and also suspects him of attempting to set himself up as a king. He leaves Carthage in disgust. When Scipio arrives in triumph, the senators order a pre-emptive announcement that Hannibal has been banished, but their disloyalty to their general only wins Scipio's contempt. Hannibal takes refuge at the court of King Prusias in Bithynia, and offers his services in a policy of resistance to Rome's territorial ambitions. Prusias refuses, preferring not to jeopardize his diplomatic relations with the Romans. A legation arrives from Rome, with Scipio on its personnel. Hannibal learns that the exits from the palace are being guarded, and infers that he is about to be surrendered to the Romans. He forestalls this by taking poison. Scipio plans to retire to country seclusion.