TULLY

O my Lord, affection is unlimited, Daring all dangers, having nor tipe nor figure, but beyond all art, Then tie not that (great Lord) to Tully's awe, Fancy forswears all reason, love all law. It stands not aptly. It does. Good Lady wrong not your honour so, To seat unworthy Tulley with your worth, O look upon the worth of Lentulus, Let your fair hand be beam unto the balance, And with a steaded peyze, lift up that beam, In on the scale, put the worth of Lentulus His state, his honours, and his revenues, Against that heavy wait: put poverty, The poor and naked name of Cicero, A partner of unregarded Orators, Then shall you see with what celerity, One title of his worth will soon pull up, Poor Tully's dignity. Lentulus is great, his frowne's my woe, And of a friend he will become my foe. Your father's grant, makes Lentulus your Lord, You're a wag Flaviam, but talk and you, must needs have a parting blow. Ladies, I take my leave, And my love. Gentle sir, Lay not that leaden load of foul reproach, Upon so weak a prop, what's done is passed recall, If ought is done, unfitting to be done, The worst is done, my life must answer it. Reverend Sir be more patient. O wrong him not. O wrong me not. Wrong not thy self. The Like will I for sweet Terentia, Fear not, I have approved armour on, Will bide the brunt of popular reproach, Or whatsoever. Why lives Flaviam a Virgin still? Can you not describe them in Actium? A good description. I have another, that I prize derer then the rest, almost sweet youth, and if the wind stand with him I can smell him half a mile ere he come at me, indeed he wears a Musk-cat, what call you it about him? What do you call it? Then it seems you grant him no favour. Swift danger now ride post through this pass sage, health to your honour. 'Tis heaven deer Lord, but— My suit craves death for treason to my friend. But can your honour bury such a wrong? Friendship it self hath been more prodigal, Then a bold face could beg upon a friend. Dread sovereign, heaven witness with me, With what bent spirit I have attainde This height of happiness: and how unwillingly, Till heavens decree, Terentias love, and your Fair consents, did meet in one, to make Me Lord thereof: nor shall it add one scruple, Of high thought to my lowly mind. Tully is Tully, parentage poor, the best, And Orator, but equal with the least. Nay, your denial will breed but greater expectation of your skill. Will Terentia follow? All which to me are problematique mines, Obscured enigma's, and to my studies Incognite language: yet if my powers, Have power to cloth my tongue in love, I'll be a Lover, and in love so plead, As if that Tully loved Terentia. O Madam! Tulley is poor, and poor is counted base. Or partly fair at the close and too it again. Lentulus! Thats too deer. Dear Madam. How will Flaminius brook my poverty? Silence sweet Lady, here comes Flaviam. About what sweet Lady? I can resolve it by rote Lady, it that year the Cuckoo sung in May: another token Lady, there reigned in Room a great Tyrant that year, and many Maids lost their heads for using flesh on Fish days. I shall, I must, I will, I will indeed, Even to the greatest I will answer it: If great men's ears be open to innocency, If greatness be not partial with greatness, Even to the greatest I will answer it, Perhaps some shallow censurer will say, The Orator was proud, he would climb too High, But heaven and truth will say the contrary. My greatest grief is, I have my friend betrayed, The treason's done, I, and the Traitor's free, Yet innocent Treason needs not to flee, His loyalty bids me abide his frown, And he hath power to raise, or hurl me down. My Liege, of him something my knowledge, Can discover, his spirit is free as air, His temper temperate, if ought's uneven, His spleen ways down lenity: but how Stirred by reproof, and then he's bitter, and Like His name, Acute, vice to him is a foul eyesore. And could he stifle it in bitterest words, he would, And who so offends, to him is parallel, He will as soon reprove the Caedar state, As the low shrub. Enter Acut. and Philant.