Where?
Gob.
There.
Arb.
There, where?
Mar.
S’light, there, are you blind?
Arb.
Which do you mean, that little one?
Gob.
No Sir.
Arb.
No Sir? why, do you mock me? I can
see
No other here, but that petitioning Lady.
Gob.
That’s she.
Arb.
Away.
Gob.
Sir, it is she.
Arb.
’Tis false.
Gob.
Is it?
Arb.
As hell, by Heaven, as false as hell,
My Sister: is she dead? if it be
so,
Speak boldly to me; for I am a man,
And dare not quarrel with Divinity;
And do not think to cozen me with this:
I see you all are mute and stand amaz’d,
Fearful to answer me; it is too true,
A decreed instant cuts off ev’ry
life,
For which to mourn, is to repine; she
dy’d
A Virgin, though more innocent than sheep,
As clear as her own eyes, and blessedness
Eternal waits upon her where she is:
I know she could not make a wish to change
Her state for new, and you shall see me
bear
My crosses like a man; we all must die,
And she hath taught us how.
Gob.
Do not mistake,
And vex your self for nothing; for her
death
Is a long life off, I hope: ’Tis
she,
And if my speech deserve not faith, lay
death
Upon me, and my latest words shall force
A credit from you.
Arb.
Which, good Gobrias? that Lady dost thou mean?
Gob.
That Lady Sir,
She is your Sister, and she is your Sister
That loves you so, ’tis she for
whom I weep,
To see you use her thus.
Arb.
It cannot be.
Tigr.
Pish, this is tedious,
I cannot hold, I must present my self,
And yet the sight of my Spaconia
Touches me, as a sudden thunder-clap
Does one that is about to sin.
Arb.
Away,
No more of this; here I pronounce him
Traytor,
The direct plotter of my death, that names
Or thinks her for my Sister, ’tis
a lie,
The most malicious of the world, invented
To mad your King; he that will say so
next,
Let him draw out his sword and sheath
it here,
It is a sin fully as pardonable:
She is no kin to me, nor shall she be;
If she were ever, I create her none:
And which of you can question this?
My power
Is like the Sea, that is to be obey’d,
And not disputed with: I have decreed
her
As far from having part of blood with
me,
As the nak’d indians; come
and answer me,
He that is boldest now; is that my Sister?