I may want answers,
Lady,
But never want
a will to do you service.
I came here to
my Sister, to take leave,
Having enjoyn’d
my self to banishment,
For some cause
that hereafter you may hear,
And wish with
me I had not the occasion.
Annophel:
There shall be
no occasion to divide us:
Dear Madam for
my sake use your power,
Even for the service
that he ought to owe,
Must, and does
owe to you, his friends, and country.
Erota:
Upon your Loyalty
to the state and me,
I do command you
Sir, not depart Candy:
Am I not your
Princess?
Antinous:
You are a great Lady.
Erota:
Then shew your self a Servant and a Subject.
Antinous:
I am your vassal.
Mochingo:
You are a Coward;
I that dare not fight,
Scorn to be vassail
to any Prince in Europe:
Great is my heart
with pride, which I’le encrease
257] When they are gone, with practise on my Vassals.
Attendants:
The noble Cassilane is come to see you Madam.
Decius:
There’s
comfort in those words, Antinous:
For here’s
the place, and persons that have power,
To reconcile you
to his love again.
Antinous:
That were a fortunate meeting.
[Enter Cassilane, and Arcanes.]
Cassilanes:
Greatness still wait you Lady.
Erota:
Good Cassilane,
we do maintain our greatness,
Through your valour.
Cassilanes:
My prayers pull
daily blessings on thy head,
My un-offending
child, my Annophel.
Good Prince, worthy
Gonzalo! ha? art thou here
Before me? in
every action art thou ambitious?
My duty (Lady)
first offered here,
And love to thee
(my child) though he out-strip me;
Thus in the wars
he got the start on me,
By being forward,
but performing less;
All the endeavours
of my life are lost,
And thrown upon
that evil of mine own
Cursed begetting,
whom I shame to father.
O that the heat
thou rob’dst me of, had burnt
Within my Entrails,
and begot a feaver,
Or some worse
sickness, for thou art a disease
Sharper than any
Physick gives a name to.
Annophel:
Why do you say so?
Cassilanes:
O Annophil;
there is good cause my girle:
He has plaid the
thief with me, and filch’d away
The richest jewel
of my life, my honour,
Wearing it publickly
with that applause,
As if he justly
did inherit it.
Antinous: