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And not himself? Why, that's the ground Of all the good estate we hold in earth; All our ill built upon that, is no more Then we may bear, and should express it all. He would not for his Kingdom traitor be; His Laws are not so true to him, as he. Oh knew I how to free him, by way forced Through all their army, I would fly, and do it: And had I, of my courage and resolve, But ten such more, they should not all retain him; But I will never die, before I give Maillard and hundred slashes with a sword, Chalon and hundred breaches with a Pistol. They could not all have taken Clermont D'Ambois, Without their treachery; he had bought his bans out With their slave bloods: but he was credulous; He would believe, since he would be believed; Your noblest nature's are most credulous. Who gives no trust, all trust is apt to break; Hate Like hell mouth, who think not what they speak. Fetch me straight My little Cabinet. [Exit Ancil.] 'Tis little tell him, And much too little for his matchless love: But as in him the worths of many men Are close contracted; [Intr. Ancil.] so in this are Jewels Worth many Cabinets. Here, with this (good sir) Commend my kindest service to my servant, Thank him, with all my comforts; and, in them With all my life for them: all sent from him n his remembrance of me, and true love: And look you tell him, tell him how I lie Prostrate at feet of his accursed misfortune, Pouring my tears out, which shall ever fallen, Till I have poured for him out eyes and all. 'Tis fit and only needful: lead me on, In heavens course comfort seek, in earth is none. That's not well. Attend him in. The last hour of his promise now run out And he break, some brack in the frame of nature That forceth his breach. All welcome. Come you from my worthy servant? Such news? what news? Oh what charge? what news? Do it; for heavens love do it, if you serve His kind desires, I will have patience. Is he in health? His liberty Without that health is nothing. Why live I, but to ask in doubt of that, Is that bear to him? What change is here? how are my Hope's prevented? Oh my most faithful servant; thou betrayed? Will Kings make treason lawful? Is Society (To keep which only Kings were first ordained) Less broke in breaking faith betwixt friend and friend, Then betwixt the King and Subject? let them fear, Kings Presidents in licence lack no danger. Kings are compared to Gods, and should be Like them, F ll in all right, in nought superfluous; Nor nothing straining passed right, for their right: Reign justly, and reign safely. Policy Is but a Guard corrupted, and a way Ventured in Deserts, without guide or path. Kings punish Subjects errors with their own. Kings are Like Archers, and their Subjects, shafts: For as when Archers let their arrows fly, They call to them, and bid them fly or fallen, As if it in the free power of the shaft To fly or fallen, when only 'tis the strength, Straight shooting, compass given it by the Archer, That makes it hit or miss; and doing either, He S to be praised or blamed, and not the shaft: So Kings to Subjects crying, do, do not this; Must to them by their own examples strength, The straightness of their acts, and equal compass, Give Subjects power obey them in the Like; Not shoot them forth with faulty aim and strength, And lay the fault in them for flying amiss, Then must my life cease. Tears are all the vent My life hath to escape death: Tears please me better, Then all life's comforts, being the natural seed Of hearty sorrow. As a tree fruit bears, So does and undissembled sorrow, tears. Who's that? Is he not slain yet? It must be so, he lived but in the Guise, As I in him. Oh follow life mine eyes. No more, I swear, I must hear, and together Come all my misery. I'll hold though I burst.