Arch.F you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my seruices are now on-foot, you shall see (as I haue said) great difference betwixt our Bohemia, and your Sicilia.
Cam.I thinke, this comming Summer, the King of Sicilia meanes to pay Bohemia the Visitation, which hee iustly owes him.
Arch.Wherein our Entertainment shall shame vs: we will be iustified in our Loues: for indeed—
Cam.'Beseech you—
Arch.Verely I speake it in the freedome of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare—I know not what to say— Wee will giue you sleepie Drinkes, that your Sences (vn-intelligent of our insufficience) may, though they cannot prayse vs, as little accuse vs.
Cam.You pay a great deale to deare, for what's giuen freely.
Arch.'Beleeue me, I speake as my vnderstanding instructs me, and as mine honestie puts it to vtterance.
Cam.Sicilia cannot shew himselfe ouer-kind to Bohemia: They were trayn'd together in their Child-hoods; and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, which cannot chuse but braunch now. Since their more mature Dignities, and Royall Necessities, made seperation of their Societie, their Encounters (though not Personall) hath been Royally attornyed with enter-change of Gifts, Letters, louing Embassies, that they haue seem'd to be together, though absent: shooke hands, as ouer a Vast; and embrac'd as it were from the ends of opposed Winds. The Heauens continue their Loues.
Arch.I thinke there is not in the World, either Malice or Matter, to alter it. You haue an vnspeakable comfort of your young Prince Mamillius: it is a Gentleman of the greatest Promise, that euer came into my Note.
Cam.I very well agree with you, in the hopes of him: it is a gallant Child; one, that (indeed) Physicks the Subiect, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on Crutches ere he was borne, desire yet their life, to see him a Man.
Arch.Would they else be content to die?
Cam.Yes; if there were no other excuse, why they should desire to liue.
Arch.If the King had no Sonne, they would desire to Exeunt.liue on Crutches till he had one.