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Fran. My lord, this air is common:
The walks within are pleasanter.[Exit

Iph. Invitation!80
God of desires, be kind, and fill me now
With language, such thou lend'st thy favourites,
When thou wouldst give them easy victories;
And I forgive thee all thy cruelties.[Exit after her

 

Scene II
Enter Palatine of Trock, and Menseck, Almerin, Brennoralt, Lords

Mens. Consider, too, that those
Who are necessitated to use violence
Have first been violent by necessity.

Pal. But still you judge not right
Of the prerogative; 'For oft it stands5
With pow'r and law, as with our faith and reason:
It is not all against that is above,'
My lord.

2nd Lord. You Lithuanians had of all least reason;
For, would the king be unjust to you, he cannot,10
Where there's so little to be had.

Alm. Where there is least, there's liberty, my lord;
And 'tis more injury to pull hairs from
The bald, than from the bushy heads.[They go off talking

Pal. Brennoralt, a word![He pulls Brennoralt15
My lord, the world hath cast its eye upon you,
And mark'd you out one of the foremost men.
Y' have busied fame the earliest of any,
And send her still on errands.
Much of the bravery of your nation20
Has taken up its lodging in you; and gallant men
But copy from you.

Bren. 'Tis goodly language this: what would it mean?

Pal. The Lithuanians wish you well, and wonder
So much desert should be so ill rewarded.25

Bren. Good.

Pal. While all the gifts the crown is mistress of
Are plac'd upon the empty.

Bren. Still I take you not.

Pal. Then, to be plain, our army would be proud of you;30
Pay the neglected scores of merit double.