Abroad into the world, is not yet cur'd.
Iol. What hurt?
Iolin. Why, know you not25
She was in love long since with young Zorannes,
Aglaura's brother, and the now queen's betroth'd?
Iol. Some such slight tale I've heard.
Iolin. Slight!
She yet does weep, when she but hears him nam'd,30
And tells the prettiest and the saddest stories
Of all those civil wars and those amours,
That, trust me, both my lady and myself
Turn weeping statues still.
Iol. Pish! 'tis not that.
'Tis Ziriff and his fresh glories here have robb'd35
Me of her: since he thus appear' d in court,
My love has languished worse than plants in drought.
But time's a good physician. Come, let's in:
The king and queen by this time are come forth.
Scene II
Enter Serving-men to Ziriff
1 Serv. Yonder's a crowd without, as if some strange
sight were to be seen to-day here.
2 Serv. Two or three with carbonadoes afore instead
of faces mistook the door for a breach, and, at the open-
ing of it, are striving still which should enter first.5
3 Serv. Is my lord busy?[Knocks
Enter Ziriff, as in his study
1 Serv. My lord, there are some soldiers without.
Zir. Well, I will despatch them presently.
2 Serv. Th' ambassadors from the Cadusians too.
Zir. Show them the gallery.
3 Serv. One from the king.10
Zir. Again? I come, I come.
Greatness, thou vainer shadow of the prince's beams,
Begot by mere reflection, nourish'd in extremes,
First taught to creep and live upon the glance,
Poorly to fare, till thine own proper strength15
Bring thee to surfeit of thyself at last!
How dull a pageant would this states-play seem
