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My Lord, if you respect your name and raze, The preservation of your former honours, Merits and virtues; humbly cast them all, At the kings mercy; for beyond all doubt, Your acts have thither driven them: he hath proofs So pregnant, and so horrid, that to hear them, Would make your valour in your very looks, Give up your forces, miserably guilty: But he is most loath (for his ancient love To your rare virtues:) and in their impair, The full discouragement of all that live, To trust or favour any gifts in Nature) T'expose them to the light; when darkness may Cover her own brood, and keep still in day, Nothing of you but that may brook her brightness: You know what horrors these high strokes do bring, Raised in the arm of and incensed King. Others that are Like favourers of the fault, Said it's a politic advise from England, To break the feared Javelins, both together Then there is good hope of your wished acquittal. He's a Bourgonian. You think I come to owned you; fare you well, Exit. 'Tis unlikely, That their march hath so large and aim as Flanders; Oh virtue, thou art now far worse then Fortune H r gifts stuck by the Duke, when thine are vanished, Thou bravest thy friend in Need: Necessity, That used to keep thy wealth, contempt, thy love, Have both abandoned thee in his extremes, Thy powers are shadows, and thy comfort, dreams,
Plot summary
Plot — The Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron
The ambitious Duke of Biron has been offered the crown by a conspiracy of France’s foreign enemies. He pacifies a Huguenot rebellion in Brittany, but suspects - that, now the country is at peace, his military services will no longer be required or even valued by the King. His ally, La Fin, supplies the King with incriminating evidence of his involvement in a plot. [A lacuna in the text follows. The Queen has a quarrel with the King’s mistress, and slaps her.] The two rival ladies make it up by performing together in a masque: Biron is recalled to court. La Fin assures him that all suspicions about his loyalty have been cleared, and- encourages him to go. Against the advice of his other friends, Biron does, thinking his reputation for valour — will make his enemies think twice about arresting him. Henry’s declared intention is to spare him if he will only confess, but Biron is proud and stubborn. He finds himself shunned by the courtiers, and learns that various horses he was given have all died, just as happened when the Earl of Essex fell. He and his ally D’Auvergne are both arrested. A Spanish ambassador asks permission for an army to cross French soil en route to Flanders; King Henry suspects it was originally levied to invade France, but nevertheless gives his permission. He sends despatches to inform foreign courts of Biron’s treason. The French - peers decline to be present at the trial. Biron is confronted with La Fin as chief prosecution witness, and claims that La Fin has practised witchcraft against him; the Chancellor, presiding over the court, retorts that no magic can force a virtuous man to act against his nature. Biron remains confident, convinced of his own indispensability, but is sentenced to death. Only then does he decide to throw himself on the King’s mercy, but it is too late, and he ig executed.