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To the Friers making a noise, gagg'd and bound, Enter Eleazar, Zarack, Baltazar, and other Moors, all with their Swords drawn.
Eleazar.
Guard all the passages, Zarack stand there,
There Baltazar, there you, the Friers,
Where have you plac'd the Friers?

Alvero.
My Lord a noise.

Baltaz.
The Friers are gagg'd and bound.

Eleaz.
'Tis Phil. and the Cardinal, shoot; hah stay!
Unbind them; where's Mendoza, and the Prince.

Cole.
Sancta Maria who can tell:
By Peters keys they bound us well,
And having crack'd our shaven crowns,
They have escap'd you in our gowns.

Eleaz.
Escap'd; escap'd away? I am glad, it's good,
I would their arms may turn to Eagles wings,
To flye us swift as time sweet air give way,
Winds leave your two and thirty pallaces,
And meeting all in one, join all your might,
To give them speedy and a prosperous flight,
Escap'd Friers, which way?

Both.
This way.

Eleaz.
Good: Alas; what sin is't to shed innocent blood;
For look you holy men, it is the King;
The King, the King, see Friers sulphury wrath
Having once entred into Royall brests:
Mark how it burns, the Qu. Philip's mother;
Oh! most unnaturall, will have you two
Divulge abroad that hee's a bastard. Oh!
Will you doo't.

Crab.
What says my brother Frier?

Cole.
A Princes love is balm, their wrath a fire:

Crab.
'Tis true, but yer I'le publish no such thing;
What fool would lose his soul, to please a King?

Eleaz.
Keep there, good there, yet for it wounds my soul,
To see the miserablest wretch to bleed.
I counsell you (in care unto your lives)
T'obey the mother Queen, for by my life
I thinke shee has been prick'd, her conscience
Oh! it has stung her, for some fact misdon,
She would not else disgrace her selfe and son
Doo't therefore, harke, shee'l work your deaths else, hate
Bred in a woman is insatiate.
Doo't Friers.

Crab.
Brother Cole? Zeal sets me in a flame,
I'le doo't.

Cole.
And I,
His basenesse wee'l proclaim
Exeunt Friers.

Eleaz.
Do, and be damn'd; Zarack and Baltazar.
Dog them at th'hee'ls, and when their poisonous breath
Hath scattered this infection, on the hearts
Of credulous Spaniards, here reward them thus,
Slaves too much trusted do grow dangerous;
Why this shall feed,
And fat suspition, and my pollicy
I'le ring through all the Court, this loud alarum:
That they contriv'd the murder of the King,
The Qu. and me; and being undermin'd,
To scape the blowing up, they fled. Oh good!
There, there, thou there, cry treason; each one take
A severall door, your cries my musick make.

Balt.
Where's the King? treason persues him:

Enter Alvero in his shirt, his sword drawn.
Ele.
Where's the sleepy Qu. Rise, rise, and arm, against the hand of treason.

Alv.
Whence comes this sound of treason?

Enter King in his shirt, his sword drawn.
King.
Who frights our quiet slumbers,
With this heavy noise:

Enter Queen in her night attire.
Qu. Mo.
Was it a dream? or did the sound
Of monster treason call me from my rest.

King.
Who rais'd this rumour Eleaz. you?

Eleaz.
I did my Liege, and still continue it,
Both for your safety, and mine own discharge.

King.
Whence coms the ground then?

Eleaz.
from the Cardinall,
And the young Prince, who bearing in his mind
The true Idea of his late disgrace,
In putting him from the Protectorship,
And envying the advancment of the Moor,
Determined this night to murder you;
And for your Highnesse lodg'd within my Castle,
They would have laid the murder on my head.

King.
The Cardinall, and my Brother, bring them forth
Their lives shall answer this ambitious practice.

Eleaz.
Alas my Lord it is impossible,
For when they saw I had discovered them,
They train'd two harmlesse Friers to their lodgings,
Disrob'd them, gagg'd them, bound'em to two posts,
And in their habits did escape the Castle.

King.
That Cardinall, is all ambition,
And from him doth our Brother gather heart.

Que. Mo.
Th'ambition of th'one infects the other,
And in a word they both are dangerous;
But might your mothers counsell stand in force,
I would advise you send the trusty Moor
To fetch them back, before they had seduc'd
The squint ey'd multitude from true allegiance,
And drawn them to their dangerous faction.

King.
It shall be so, therefore my States best prop,
Within whose bosome I durst trust my life,
Both for my safety and thine own discharge,
Fetch back those traitors, and till your return
Our self will keep your Castle.

Eleaz.
My Leige; the tongue of true obedience
Most not gainsay his Soveraigns impose,
By heaven; I will not kiss the cheek of sleep,
Till I have fetch'd those traitors to the Court.

King.
Why; this sorts right, he gon; his beauteous wife
Shall sail into the naked arms of love.

Qu. Mo.
Why, this is as it should bee, he once gon,
His wife that keeps me from his marriage bed,
Shall by this hand of mine be muthered.

King.
This storm is well nigh past the swelling clouds,
That hang so full of treason by the wind,
In awfull Majestie are scatt'red.
Then each man to his rest; good night sweet friend,
Whil'st thou persu'st the traitors that are fled,
Fernando means to warm thy marriage bed.

Exit
Ele.
Many good nights, consume and dam your souls.
I know he means to Cuckold mee this night;
Yet do I know no means to hinder it.
Besides, who know, whether the lustful King
Having my wife and Castle at command,
Will ever make surrender back again;
But if he do not, with my falchions point
I'le lance those swelling veins in which hot lust
Does keep his Revels, and with that warm blood
Where Venus's bastard coold his sweltring spleen,
Wash the disgrace from Eleazars brows.