Agreed; I am for you, Moor; stand side by side; Come, hands off, leave your ducking; hell cannot fright Their spirits that do desperately fight. COLE. You are too rash, you are too hot, And hearts of iron; your deaths are vow'd The gag's too wide; so, gone, gone, gone! PHIL. Oh! well, I'll come again. Lord Cardinal, Take you your castle, I'll to Portugal. I vow I'll come again, and if I do CARD. Nay, good my lord. PHIL. Black devil! I'll conjure you. [Exeunt Philip and Cardinal. To the FRIARS making a noise, gagged and bound, enter ELEAZAR, ZARACK, BALTAZAR, and other Moors, all with their swords drawn. ELEAZ.Guard all the passages; Zarack, stand there; There Baltazar; there you; the friars,— Where have you plac'd the friars? ALL. My lord, a noise! BALT. The friars are gagg'd and bound. ELEAZ. 'Tis Philip and the cardinal; shoot! hah! stay, Unbind them. Where's Mendoza and the prince? ELEAZ. Escap'd! escap'd away! I'm glad, it's good; BOTH. This way. ELEAZ. Good! alas, what sin is't to shed innocent blood! For look you, holy men, it is the king, The king, the king! see, friars, sulphury wrath Having once enter'd into royal breasts, Mark how it burns: the queen, Philip's mother, Oh, most unnatural! will have you two Divulge abroad that he's a bastard. Oh! Will you do't? CRAB. What says my brother friar? COLE. A prince's love is balm, their wrath a fire. CRAB. 'Tis true; but yet I'll publish no such thing; What fool would lose his soul to please a king? ELEAZ. Keep there, good there; yet, for it wounds my soul, To see the miserablest wretch to bleed, I counsel you, in care unto your lives, She would not else disgrace herself and son. Do't therefore; hark! she'll work your deaths else, hate Bred in woman is insatiate. Do't, friars. CRAB. Brother Cole, zeal sets me in a flame, I'll do't. COLE. And I: his baseness we'll proclaim. [Exeunt Friars. ELEAZ. Do, and be damn'd; Zarack and Bal tazar, Dog them at the heels; and when their poisonous breath Hath scatter'd this infection on the hearts Of credulous Spaniards, here, reward them thus; And fat suspicion and my policy: I'll ring through all the court this loud alarum, VOL. II. 16 The queen, and me; and being undermin'd, BALT. Where's the king? treason pursues him. Enter ALVERO in his shirt, his sword drawn. Rise, rise, and arm against the hand of treason! Enter QUEEN in her night attire. Q. Mo. Was it a dream, or did the sound And the young prince; who bearing in his mind In putting him from the protectorship, And for your highness lodg'd within my castle, Their lives shall answer this ambitious practice. ELEAZ. Alas! my lord, it is impossible; For when they saw I had discover'd them, They train'd two harmless friars to their lodgings, Disrob'd them, gagg'd them, bound them to two posts, And in their habits did escape the castle. KING. The cardinal is all ambition, And from him doth our brother gather heart. Q. Mo. Th' ambition of the one infects the other, And in a word they both are dangerous : But might your mother's council stand in force, I would advise you, send the trusty Moor To fetch them back before they have seduc'd The squint-ey'd multitude from true allegiance, And drawn them to their dangerous faction. KING. It shall be so. Therefore, my state's best prop, Within whose bosom I durst trust my life, Both for my safety and thine own discharge, ELEAZ. My liege, the tongue of true obedience By heaven! I will not kiss the cheek of sleep beauteous wife Shall sail into the naked arms of love. Q. Mo. [Aside.] Why this is as it should be; he once gone, |