I know they will deny me gracious Madam,
Being a stranger, and so little fam’d,
So utter empty of those excellencies
That tame Authority; but in you sweet
Lady,
All these are natural; beside, a power
Deriv’d immediate from your Royal
brother,
Whose least word in you may command the
Kingdom.
Pan.
More than my word Spaconia, you
shall carry,
For fear it fail you.
Spa.
Dare you trust a Token?
Madam I fear I am grown too bold a begger.
Pan.
You are a pretty one, and trust me Lady
It joyes me, I shall do a good to you,
Though to my self I never shall be happy:
Here, take this Ring, and from me as a
Token
Deliver it; I think they will not stay
you:
So all your own desires go with you Lady.
Spa.
And sweet peace to your Grace.
Pan.
Pray Heaven I find it.
[Exeunt.
Enter Tigranes, in prison.
Tigr.
Fool that I am, I have undone my self,
And with my own hand turn’d my fortune
round,
That was a fair one: I have childishly
Plaid with my hope so long, till I have
broke it,
And now too late I mourn for’t;
O Spaconia!
Thou hast found an even way to thy revenge
now,
Why didst thou follow me like a faint
shadow,
To wither my desires? But wretched
fool,
Why did I plant thee ’twixt the
Sun and me,
To make me freeze thus? Why did I
prefer her
To the fair Princess? O thou fool,
thou fool,
Thou family of fools, live like a slave
still,
And in thee bear thine own hell and thy
torment,
Thou hast deserv’d: Couldst
thou find no Lady
But she that has thy hopes to put her
to,
And hazard all thy peace? None to
abuse,
But she that lov’d thee ever? poor
Spaconia,
And so much lov’d thee, that in
honesty
And honour thou art bound to meet her
vertues:
She that forgot the greatness of her grief
And miseries, that must follow such mad
passions,
Endless and wild as women; she that for
thee
And with thee left her liberty, her name,
And Country, you have paid me equal, Heavens,
And sent my own rod to correct me with;
A woman: for inconstancy I’le
suffer,
Lay it on justice, till my soul melt in
me
For my unmanly, beastly, sudden doting
Upon a new face: after all my oaths
Many and strange ones,
I feel my old fire flame again and burn
So strong and violent, that should I see
her
Again, the grief and that would kill me.
Enter Bacurius And Spaconia.
Bac.
Lady, your token I acknowledge, you may
pass;
There is the King.
Spa.
I thank your Lordship for it.