Good Lady be not fearful, though he should
not
Give you your present end in this, believe
it,
You shall feel, if your vertue can induce
you
To labour on’t, this tempest which
I know,
Is but a poor proof ’gainst your
patience:
All those contents, your spirit will arrive
at,
Newer and sweeter to you; your Royal brother,
When he shall once collect himself, and
see
How far he has been asunder from himself;
What a meer stranger to his golden temper:
Must from those roots of vertue, never
dying,
Though somewhat stopt with humour, shoot
again
Into a thousand glories, bearing his fair
branches
High as our hopes can look at, straight
as justice,
Loaden with ripe contents; he loves you
dearly,
I know it, and I hope I need not farther
Win you to understand it.
Pan.
I believe it.
But howsoever, I am sure I love him dearly:
So dearly, that if any thing I write
For my enlarging should beget his anger,
Heaven be a witness with me and my faith,
I had rather live intomb’d here.
Gob.
You shall not feel a worse stroke
than your grief,
I am sorry ’tis so sharp, I kiss
your hand,
And this night will deliver this true
story,
With this hand to your Brother.
_ Pan._
Peace go with you, you are a good man.
[Exit Gob.
My Spaconia, why are you ever sad thus?
Spa.
O dear Lady.
Pan.
Prethee discover not a way to sadness,
Nearer than I have in me, our two sorrows
Work like two eager Hawks, who shall get
highest;
How shall I lessen thine? for mine I fear
Is easier known than cur’d.
Spa.
Heaven comfort both,
And give you happy ends, however I
Fall in my stubborn fortunes.
Pan.
This but teaches
How to be more familiar with our sorrows,
That are too much our masters: good
Spaconia
How shall I do you service?
Spa.
Noblest Lady,
You make me more a slave still to your
goodness,
And only live to purchase thanks to pay
you,
For that is all the business of my life:
now
I will be bold, since you will have it
so,
To ask a noble favour of you.
Pan.
Speak it, ’tis yours, for from so
sweet a vertue,
No ill demand has issue.
Spa.
Then ever vertuous, let me beg your will
In helping me to see the Prince Tigranes,
With whom I am equal prisoner, if not
more.
Pan.
Reserve me to a greater end Spaconia; Bacurius cannot want so much good manners As to deny your gentle visitation, Though you came only with your own command.
Spa.