Indeed this is none.
Arb.
Tigranes, Nay did I but take delight
To stretch my deeds as others do, on words,
I could amaze my hearers.
Mar.
So you do.
Arb.
But he shall wrong his and my modesty,
That thinks me apt to boast after any
act
Fit for a good man to do upon his foe.
A little glory in a souldiers mouth
Is well-becoming, be it far from vain.
Mar.
’Tis pity that valour should be thus drunk.
Arb.
I offer you my Sister, and you answer
I do insult, a Lady that no suite
Nor treasure, nor thy Crown could purchase
thee,
But that thou fought’st with me.
Tigr.
Though this be worse
Than that you spake before, it strikes
me not;
But that you think to overgrace me with
The marriage of your Sister, troubles
me.
I would give worlds for ransoms were they
mine,
Rather than have her.
Arb.
See if I insult
That am the Conquerour, and for a ransom
Offer rich treasure to the Conquered,
Which he refuses, and I bear his scorn:
It cannot be self-flattery to say,
The Daughters of your Country set by her,
Would see their shame, run home and blush
to death,
At their own foulness; yet she is not
fair,
Nor beautiful, those words express her
not,
They say her looks have something excellent,
That wants a name: yet were she odious,
Her birth deserves the Empire of the world,
Sister to such a brother, that hath ta’ne
Victory prisoner, and throughout the earth,
Carries her bound, and should he let her
loose,
She durst not leave him; Nature did her
wrong,
To Print continual conquest on her cheeks,
And make no man worthy for her to taste
But me that am too near her, and as strangely
She did for me, but you will think I brag.
Mar.
I do I’le be sworn. Thy valour and thy passions sever’d, would have made two excellent fellows in their kinds: I know not whether I should be sorry thou art so valiant, or so passionate, wou’d one of ’em were away.
Tigr.
Do I refuse her that I doubt her worth?
Were she as vertuous as she would be thought,
So perfect that no one of her own sex
Could find a want, had she so tempting
fair,
That she could wish it off for damning
souls,
I would pay any ransom, twenty lives
Rather than meet her married in my bed.
Perhaps I have a love, where I have fixt
Mine eyes not to be mov’d, and she
on me,
I am not fickle.
Arb.