Why do you turn away, and weep so fast,
And utter things that mis-become your
looks,
Can you want owning?
Spa.
O ’tis certain so.
Tigr.
Acknowledge your self mine.
Arb.
How now?
Tigr.
And then see if you want an owner.
Arb.
They are talking.
Tigr.
Nations shall owne you for their Queen.
Arb.
Tigranes, art not thou my prisoner?
Tigr.
I am.
Arb.
And who is this?
Tigr.
She is your Sister.
Arb.
She is so.
Mar.
Is she so again? that’s well.
Arb.
And then how dare you offer to change words with her?
Tigr.
Dare do it! Why? you brought me hither
Sir,
To that intent.
Arb.
Perhaps I told you so,
If I had sworn it, had you so much folly
To credit it? The least word that
she speaks
Is worth a life; rule your disordered
tongue,
Or I will temper it.
Spa.
Blest be the breath.
Tigr.
Temper my tongue! such incivilities
As these, no barbarous people ever knew:
You break the lawes of Nature, and of
Nations,
You talk to me as if I were a prisoner
For theft: my tongue be temper’d?
I must speak
If thunder check me, and I will.
Arb.
You will?
Spa.
Alas my fortune.
Tigr.
Do not fear his frown, dear Madam, hear me.
Arb.
Fear not my frown? but that ’twere
base in me
To fight with one I know I can o’recome,
Again thou shouldst be conquer’d
by me.
Mar.
He has one ransome with him already; me-thinks
’T were good to fight double, or
quit.
Arb.
Away with him to prison: Now Sir,
see
If my frown be regardless; Why delay you?
Seise him Bacurius, you shall know
my word
Sweeps like a wind, and all it grapples
with,
Are as the chaffe before it.
Tigr.
Touch me not.
Arb.
Help there.
Tigr.
Away.
1 Gent.
It is in vain to struggle.
2 Gent.
You must be forc’d.
Bac.
Sir, you must pardon us, we must obey.
Arb.
Why do you dally there? drag him away
By any thing.
Bac.
Come Sir.
Tigr.