Jac.
Now I fear;
Be silent.
Hen.
Why dost thou follow me?
Jam.
To save your life,
A plot is laid for’t,
all my wrongs forgot,
I have a Brothers Love.
Hen.
But thy false self
I fear no enemy.
Jam.
You have no friend,
But what breathes in
me: If you move a step
Beyond this ground you
tread on, you are lost.
Hen.
’Tis by thy practice
then: I am sent hither
To meet her, that prefers
my life and safetie
Before her own.
Jam.
That you should be abus’d
thus
With weak credulitie!
She for whose sake
You have forgot we had
one noble Father,
Or that one Mother bare
us, for whose love
You brake a contract
to which heaven was witness,
To satisfie whose pride
and wilfull humour
You have expos’d
a sweet and hopefull Son
To all the miseries
that want can bring him,
And such a Son, though
you are most obdurate,
To give whom entertainment
Savages
Would quit their Caves
themselves, to keep him from
Bleak cold and hunger:
This dissembling woman,
This Idol, whom you
worship, all your love
And service trod under
her feet, designs you
To fill a grave, or
dead to lye a prey
For Wolves and Vulturs.
Hen.
’Tis false; I
defie thee,
And stand upon my Guard.
Enter Leandro,
Milanes, Arsenio, Bart, Lopez, Diego,
Octavio, Jacinta, Ascanio,
and Servants.
Jam.
Alas, ’tis weak:
Come on, since you will
teach me to be cruel,
By having no faith in
me, take your fortune,
Bring the rest forth,
and bind them fast.
Oct.
My Lord.
Asc.
In what have we offended?
Jam.
I am deaf,
And following my will,
I do not stand
Accomptable to reason:
See her Ring
(The first pledge of
your love, and service to her)
Deliver’d as a
Warrant for your death:
These Bags of gold you
gave up to her trust,
(The use of which you
did deny your self)
Bestow’d on me,
and with a prodigal hand,
Whom she pick’d
forth to be the Architect
Of her most bloudy building;
and to fee
These Instruments, to
bring Materials
To raise it up, she
bad me spare no cost,
And (as a surplusage)
offer’d her self
To be at my devotion.
Hen.
O accurs’d!
Jam.