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Scena Secunda.
Montalto, Arnaldo, with Attendants.Mont.
'Tis much, none yet appeares will undertake
The Princesses defence: had not the King
Impos'd this place on me, and therewithall
An incapability of serving her
As Champion; I'le take Heaven to witnesse
If none should take her cause in hand, I
Would have had beene the man my selfe.
Arn.
I thinke it fitter farre
She suffer, who through unrelenting doeth
Cause matchlesse paynes within her servant's breast
Then she, whose yielding breathes new life into him.
If the same heate, the very same desire
Doe egge both sexes on to taste those sweetes
Of love, which to the ruder vulgar seeme
Faults punishable; why should women be
Blam'd for committing that with one or more,
Which men commit and recommit each houre,
And are the most esteem'd, not punish'd; trueth to say
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But though our offices exempt us, there are enough
Yong lads i'th'towne; me thinkes some halfe a thousand
Should strive for th'honour of the undertaking,
And if none doe then may my wish prevayle
That none betwixt nineteen and fourty nine
May ever have commotion beneath the girdle.
Mont.
All this is but discourse. The time's at hand,
Therefore let us provide all things be ready,
That come or come they not, we be not found
Faulty in executing of our dutyes.
Who waytes without there?
Enter three Servants.
1. Man.
What's your pleasure Sir?
Mont.
Are all things ready? Is the scaffold up?
Are things within the lists ordered as
You had command?
1. Man.
All straightwayes will be done.
Mont.
It were then best my Lord that you and I
Went to acquaint all parties wh'are concern'd
That they prepare themselves, for th'houre drawes nigh.
(Exeunt.
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