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Scena. VI.

Enter Eleazar, Zarack, and Baltazar.
Eleazar.
Zarack and Baltazar, are they dispatch'd?

Zarack.
We saw 'em sprawl, and turn up the white of the eye.

Elea.
So shall they perish, that lay countermines;
To erosse our high designments: by their habits,
The Cardinall and Philip scap'd our nets.
And by your hands they tasted our revenge.
Enter Queen Mother.
Here coms the Queen, away! under our wings,
You shall stand safe, and brave the proudest Kings.

Exeunt.
Qu. Mo.
Oh! flie my Eleazar, save thy life.
Else point a guard about thee, the mad people
Tempestuous like the Sea run up and down
Some crying kill the bastard, some the Moor;
Some cry, God save King Philip; and some cry,
God save the Moor; some others, he shall die.

Eleaz.
Are these your fears, thus blow them into air.
I rusht amongst the thickest of their crowds,
And with a countenance Majestical,
Like the Imperious Sun disperst their clouds;
I have perfum'd the rankness of their breath,
And by the magick of true eloquence,
Transform'd this many headed Cerberus,
This py'd Camelion, this beast multitude,
Whose power consists in number, pride in threats;
Yet melt like snow when Majestie shines forth
This heap of fools, who crowding in huge, swarms,
Stood at our Court gates like a heap of dung,
Recking and shouting out contagious breath
of power to poison all the elements;
This Wolf I held by 'th ears, and made him tame,
And made him tremble at the Moors great name.
No, we must combate with a grimmer foe,
That damn'd Mendoza over-turns our hopes.
He loves you dearly.

Qu. Mo.

By his secret Letters he hath intreated

me in some disguise to leave the
Court, and fly into his arms.

Eleaz.
The world cannot devize a stratagem
Sooner to throw confusion on his pride:
Subscribe to his desires, and in dead night
Steal to his Castle, swear to him his love
Hath drawn you thither; undermine his soul,
And learn what villanies are there laid up,
Then for your pleasure walk to take the air:
Near to the Castle I'le in ambush lie,
And scern by force to take you prisoner;
This done, I have a practice plotted here,
Shall rid him of his life, and us of fear:
About it madam, this is all in all;
We cannot stand unlesse Mendoza fall.