So much for that.-Durst then the cardinal
Put on such insolence? tell me, fair madam,
Where's your most valiant husband?

Eleaz. He sees me, and yet inquires for me.
Maria. Yonder, my lord.

Fern. Eleazar, I have in my breast writ down, From her report, your late receiv'd disgrace; My father lov'd you dearly, so will I.

Eleaz. True, for my wife's sake.

Fern. This indignity

[Aside.

Will I have interest in; for being your king,
You shall perceive I'll curb my underling.
This morning is our coronation,

And father's funeral solemnized;

Be present, step into your wonted place, We'll gild your dim disgraces with our grace. [Exeunt.

Eleaz I thank my sovereign, that you love my

wife;

I thank thee, wife, that thou wilt lock my head
In such strong armour, to bear off all blows;
Who dare say such wives are their husband's foes?
Let's see now, by her falling I must rise;
Cardinal, you die if the king bid me live;
Philip, you die, for railing at me; proud lord,
you die,

That with Mendoza cry'd, banish the Moor.
And you, my loving liege, you're best sit fast,
If all these live not, you must die at last.

ACT II. SCENE I.

Enter two LORDS, PHILIP, MENDOZA, ELEAZAR, with him the KING crowned; QUEEN MOTHER, ALVERO, ZARACK, BALTAZAR, and Attendants.

Mend. Why stares this devil thus, as if pale death

Had made his eyes the dreadful messengers
To carry black destruction to the world?
Was he not banish'd Spain?

Phil. Your sacred mouth

Pronounc'd the sentence of his banishment:
Then spurn the villain forth.

Eleaz. Who spurns the Moor,

Were better set his foot upon the devil.
Do spurn me, and this confounding arm of wrath
Shall, like a thunderbolt breaking the clouds,
Divide his body from his soul! Stand back.
Spurn Eleazar!

Rod. Shall we bear this pride?

Alv. Why not? he underwent much injury. Mend. What injury have we perform'd, proud lord?

Eleaz. Proud cardinal, my unjust banishment. Mend. 'Twas we that did it, and our words are laws.

King. 'Twas we repeal'd him, and our words are laws.

Zar. Balt. If not, these are.

[All the Moors draw.

Phil. How! threaten'd and out-dar'd!

King. Shall we give arm to hostile violence? Sheath your swords, sheath them, it's we command. Eleaz. Grant Eleazar justice, my dread liege. Mend. Eleazar hath had justice from our hands, And he stands banish'd from the court of Spain. King. Have you done justice? Why, Lord Cardinal,

From whom do you derive authority

To banish him the court without our leave? Mend. From this, the staff of our protector

ship;

From this, which the last will of your dead father Committed to our trust; from this high place, Which lifts Mendoza's spirits beyond the pitch Of ordinary honour, and from this

[King takes the staff from Mendoza and gives it to Eleazar.

King. Which too much over-weening insolence Hath quite ta'en from thee. Eleazar up, And from us sway this Staff of Regency. All. How's this!

Phil. Dare sons presume to break their father's will?

King. Dare subjects counter-check their sovereign's will?

'Tis done, and who gainsays it is a traitor.
Phil. I do, Fernando, yet am I no traitor.
Mend. Fernando, I am wrong'd; by Peter's
chair,

Mendoza vows revenge. I'll lay aside
My cardinal's hat, and in a wall of steel,
The glorious livery of a soldier,

Fight for my late lost honour.

King. Cardinal!

Mend. King! thou shalt be no king for wrong

ing me.

The Pope shall send his bulls through all thy realm,

And pull obedience from thy subjects' hearts,
To put on armour of the Mother Church.
Curses shall fall like lightnings on thy head,
Bell, book, and candle, holy water, prayers,
Shall all chime vengeance to the court of Spain,
Till they have power to conjure down that fiend,
That damn'd Moor, that devil, that lucifer,
That dares aspire the staff the card'nal sway'd.
Eleaz. Ha! ha! ha! I laugh yet, that the
cardinal's vext.

Phil. Laugh'st thou, base slave! the wrinkles of that scorn,

Thine own heart's blood shall fill. Brother, fare

well;

Since you disprove the will our father left,

For base lust of a loathed concubine.

Eleaz. Ha! concubine! who does Prince Philip mean?

Phil. (To Eleaz.) Thy wife.-(To Alv.) Thy daughter,-base aspiring lords;

Who to buy honour are content to sell

Your names to infamy, your souls to hell.

And stamp you now? Do, do, for you shall see go for vengeance, and she'll come with me.

I

Eleaz. Stay, for she's here already, see, proud [They both draw. Qu. Mo. Hold! stay this fury; if you long for

boy.

blood,

Murder me first. Dear son, you are a king; Then stay the violent tempest of their wrath. King. Shall kings be oversway'd in their desires? Rod. Shall subjects be oppress'd by tyranny? Qu. Mo. No state shall suffer wrong; then hear me speak:

Mendoza, you have sworn you love the queen; Then by that love 1 charge you leave these arms. Eleazar, for those favours I have given you, Embrace the cardinal, and be friends with him. Eleaz. And have my wife call'd strumpet to my face!

Qu. Mo. (Aside to Eleazar.) 'Twas rage made his tongue err; do you not know

The violent love Mendoza bears the queen?
Then speak him fair, for in that honied breath
I'll lay a bait shall train him to his death.
Come, come, I see your looks give way to peace;
Lord Cardinal begin; (aside) and for reward,
Ere this fair setting sun behold his bride;
Be bold to challenge love, yet be denied.
Mend. (Aside.) That promise makes me
yield,―my gracious lord,

Although my disgrace hath graven its memory
On every Spaniard's eye, yet shall the duty
I owe your sacred highness, and the love.
My country challengeth, make me lay by
Hostile intendments, and return again

To the fair circle of obedience.

King. Both pardon and our favour bids you welcome

;

And for some satisfaction for your wrongs,

We here create you Salamanca's Duke: