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Scæna tertij.

Enter Ladislaus, Honoria, Eubulus, Ferdinand, Acanthe, attendance.
Honoria.
Now you know all sir with the motiues why
I forc'd him to my lodging.

Ladislaus.
I desire
No more such trials Lady.

Honoria.
I presume sir
You do not doubt my chastity.

Ladislaus.
I would not,
But these are strange inducements.

Eubulus.
By no meanes sir
Why though he were with violence ceasd vpon,
And still detaynd the man sir being no souldier
Nor vsd to charge his pike when the breach is open
There was no danger in't: you must conceiue sir,
Being relligious, she Chose him for a Chaplaine
To read old Homelies to her in the darke,
Shee's bound to it by her Cannons.

Ladislaus.
Still tormented
With thy impertinence.

Honoria.
By your selfe deere sir.
I was ambitious onely to ouer throw
His boasted constancy in his consent,
But for fact I contemne him, I was neuer
Vnchast in thought, I laboured to giue proofe
What power dwels in this beauty you admire so,
And when you see how soone it hath transform'd him,
And with what superstition hee addores it,
Determine as you please.

Ladislaus.
I will looke on
This pageant but.

Honoria.
When you haue seene and hard sir.
The passages, which I my selfe discouer'd,
And could haue kept conceal'd had I meant basely
Iudge as you please.

Ladislaus.
well Ill obserue the issue.

Eubulus.
How had you tooke this Generall in your wife?

Ferdinand.
As a strange curiosity, but Queenes
Are priuiledgd aboue subiects, and tis fit sir.

Exeunt.