No better a remembrancer than pain,
I should forget I e'er was hurt, thanks to Heav'n
And good Andrages!
Zir. And more than thanks: I hope we yet shall live
To pay him. How old's the night?
And. Far spent, I fear,30
My lord.
Zir. I have a cause that should be heard
Yet ere day break, and I must needs entreat
You, sir, to be the judge in't.
Ther. What cause, Zorannes?
Zir. When you have promis'd
Ther. 'Twere hard I should deny thee anything.35
Know'st thou, Andrages, what he means?
And. Nor cannot guess, sirs.[Draw in the bed
I read a trouble in his face, when first he left you,
But understood it not.
Re-enter Ziriff, with King, Ariaspes, Iolas, Queen, and Two or Three Guards
Zir. Have I not pitch'd my nets like a good huntsman?40
Look, sir, the noblest of the herd are here.
Ther. I am astonished.
Zir. This place is yours.[Helps him up
Ther. What wouldst thou have me do?
Zir. Remember, sir, your promise.45
I could do all I have to do alone; but justice
Is not justice, unless't be justly done.
Here, then, I will begin; for here began
My wrongs. This woman, sir, was wondrous fair
And wondrous kind—ay, fair and kind; for so50
The story runs.
She gave me look for look and glance for glance;
And every sigh like Echo's, was return'd.
We sent up vow by vow, promise on promise,
So thick and strangely multiplied, that sure55
We gave the heavenly registers their business,
And other mortals' oaths then went for nothing.
We felt each other's pains, each other's joys;
Thought the same thought, and spoke the very same:
We were the same; and I have much ado60
To think she could be ill, and I not be
So too; and after this, all this, sir, she
