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Unto your words most comely Lord, my self submit do I: To trace with you in field so green, I mean not to deny. If it please your grace (Oh mighty king) you shall not this re quest It is a thing that nature's course, doth utterly detest. And high it would the God displease, of all that is the wurst: To grant your grace to marry so, it is not I that durst. Yet humble thanks I render now unto you mighty King: That you vouchsafe to great estate, so gladly would me bring. Were it not it were offence, I would it not deny: But such great honour to achieve, my heart I would apply. Therefore (Oh king) with humble heart, in this I pardon crave: Mine answer is in this request: your mind you may not have. Then mighty King I crave your grace, to hear y e words of me Your council take of Lordings wit, the laws aright peruse: If I with safe may grant this deed, I will it not refuse. Oh God forgive me if I do amiss: The king by compultion, inforseth me this. With willing hearts your whole behest, we mind for to obey: These words to hear makes stilling tears, issue from Crystal eyes No, no (Oh King) but as you see, friendship in brother's whelp: When one was Like to have repulse, the other yielded help. And was this favour showed in dogs to shame of royal king: Alack I wish these ears of mine, had not once herd this thing Even so should you (Oh mighty King) to brother been a stay: And not without offence to you, in such wise him to slay. In all assays it was your part, his cause to have defended: And who so ever had him misused, to have them reprehended. But faithful Love was more in Dog, then it was in your grace: O mightle King & husband mine, vouchsafe to here me speak: And licence give to spouse of thine, her patient mind to break. For tender Love unto your grace, my words I did so frame: For pure Love doth heart of king, me violate and blame. And to your grace is this offence, that I should purchase death: Then cursed time that I was Queen, to shorten this my breath. your grace does know by marriage true, I am your wife & spouse And one to save a ̄ others health (at troth plighted) made our vows Therefore Oh king let loouing Queen, at thy hand find remorse Let pi e be a mean to quench, that cruel raging force. And pardon plighted from princes mouth, yield grace unto your queen: That amity w to faithful zeal, may ever be us between. With patience I will you both obey: Yet before I die some Psalm to God let me sing: Farewell you Ladies of the Court, with all your masking hew: I do forsake these broidered guards, and all the fashions new. The Court and all the courtly train, wherein I had delight: I banished am from happy sport and all by spiteful spite. Yet with a joyful heart to God a Psalm I mean to sing: Forgiving all & the king, of eke kind of thing.
Plot summary
Plot — Cambises, King of Persia
Gamibyses leaves Sisamimes in charge of his kingdom while he conquers Egypt. After a comic incident in which soldiers going to the war are beaten by a prostitute, the deputy, encouraged by AlmibiGextér, grows corrupt and takes bribes. Cambyses returns victorious and has him executed and flayed in the presence of Sisamnes’ son @tiaii, whom he appoints as his father’s successor. Praxaspes criticizes Cambyses’ drunkenness, so the King demonstrates his steady hand by shooting the courtier’s son dead. SHIEFAIE is also critical, but bides his time awaiting Cambyses’ death and his own succession to the throne; but Cambyses grows fearful of his ambition and has him murdered. After another comic incident in which Ambidexter first entraps two rustics into speaking ill of the King and then denounces them as traitors, Menus and @upid induce Cambyses into an_ incestuous marriage with a kinswoman. She criticizes him for the murder of Smerdis and he has her killed too. ===== PAGE 46 ===== Finally Cambyses accidentally impales himself on his own sword when leaping onto his horse, and dies. This is interpreted as divine punishment for his tyranny.