She'd had commission to have us'd me so,
And all mankind beside. And see,
If the just ocean makes more haste to pay90
To needy rivers what is borrow'd first,
Than she to give where she ne'er took. Methinks
I feel anger, revenge's harbinger,
Chalking up all within, and thrusting out
Of doors the tame and softer passions.95
It must be so:
To love is noble frailty; but poor sin,
When we fall once to love, unlov'd again.[Exit
Scene IV
Enter King, Ariaspes, Iolas
Ari. 'Twere fit your justice did consider, sir,
What way it took. If you should apprehend
The prince for treason, which he never did,
And which, unacted, is unborn—
At least 'twill be believed so;—lookers-on5
And the loud-talking crowd will think it all
But water-colours laid on for a time,
And which, wip'd off, each common eye would see
Strange ends through stranger ways.
King. Think'st thou I will compound with treason then,10
And make one fear another's advocate?
Iol. Virtue forbid, sir! but if you would permit
Them to approach the room (yet who would advise
Treason should come so near?) there would be then
No place left for excuse.
King. How strong are they?15
Iol. Weak, considering
The enterprise; they are but few in number,
And those few, too, having nothing but
Their resolutions considerable about them:
A troop indeed design'd to suffer what20
They come to execute.
King. Who are they are thus weary of their lives?
Iol. Their names I cannot give you;
For those he sent for, he did still receive
At a back door, and so dismist them too:25
But I do think Ziriff is one.
King. Take heed!
I shall suspect thy hate to others, not
