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Scæna prima.
Enter Bassanes alone.Bass.
Athens , to Athens I haue sent, the Nursery
Of Greece for learning, and the Fount of knowledge:
One wise man to direct, we're all turn'd madcaps:
'Tis said, Apollo is the god of herbs;
Then certainly he knowes the vertue of 'em:
To Delphos I haue sent to; if there can be
A helpe for nature, we are sure yet.
Enter Orgilus:
Org.
Honour
Attend thy counsels euer.
Bass.
I beseech thee
With all my heart let me goe from thee quietly,
I will not ought to doe with thee of all men.
The doublers of a Hare, or, in a morning,
Salutes from a splay-footed witch, to drop
Three drops of blood at th'nose iust, and no more,
Croaking of Rauens, or the screech of Owles,
Are not so boading mischiefe as thy crossing
My priuate meditations: shun me, prethe;
And if I cannot loue thee hartily,
I'le loue thee as well as I can.
Org.
Noble Bassanes
Mistake me not.
Bass.
Phew, then we shall be troubled;
Thou wert ordain'd my plague, heauen make me thankfull,
And giue me patience too, heauen I beseech thee.
Org.
Accept a league of amity; for henceforth,
I vow by my best Genius, in a sillable,
Neuer to speake vexation; I will study
Seruice and friendship with a zealous sorrow
For my past inciuility towards 'ee.
Bass.
Heydey! good words, good words, I must beleeue 'em,
And be a Coxcombe for my labor.
Org.
Vse not
So hard a Language; your misdoubt is causelesse:
For instance; if you promise to put on
A constancy of patience, such a patience
As Chronicle, or history ne're mentioned,
As followes not example, but shall stand
A wonder, and a Theame for imitation,
The first, the Index pointing to a second,
I will acquaint'ee with an vnmatch'd secret,
Bass.
Thou canst not (Orgilus) 'tis in the power
Of the gods onely; yet for satisfaction,
Because I note an earnest in thine vtterance,
Vnforc'd, and naturally free, be resolute
The Virgin Bayes shall not withstand the lightning
With a more carelesse danger, than my constancy
The full of thy relation: could it moue
Distraction in a senselesse marble statue,
It should finde me a rocke: I doe expect now
Some truth of vnheard moment.
Org.
To your patience
You must adde priuacie, as strong in silence
As mysteries look'd vp in Ioues owne bosome.
Bass.
A skull hid in the earth a treble age,
Shall sooner prate.
Org.
Lastly, to such direction
As the seuerity of a glorious Action
Deserues to lead your wisdome and your iudgement,
You ought to yeeld obedience.
Bass.
With assurance
Of will and thankfulnesse.
Org.
With manly courage
Please then to follow me.
Bass.
Where e're, I feare not.
Exeunt omnes.
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