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Scæa. 4a.

Enter Orange: & 1 Captaine.
Cap.
And, as I told you r Highnes, so wee tooke him:

Or.
'twas with discretion, and valor followd,
You were not noted, as you made yor entraunce
into the Hage?

Cap.
no, Sir, 'twas about Midnight
and few were stirring but the Guard.

Or.
the better:
let his being brought in, be still conceald, and tell him
if vncompelld he will confes the truth
at Barnauelts Arraignement, that all fauor
that I can wyn him, shall prepare a Way
—Enter Burgers & women, wt h Bowghs & flowres.
to quallifie his fault.

Cap.
ile work him to it
and doubt not

Or.
what are theis

Cap
'Tis Keramis-time
in which it is a custome with the people

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to deck[«t»] their dores wt h Garlonds, Bowghes, & flowres
that are most gratious.

Or.
ô I remember:
stand close.

1 Burgr.
strow, strow: more Garlonds, and more, flowres,
vp wt h the Bowghes; 'sacramant I will haue
my noble Frends house, Mounseiur Barnauelts
as well deckt as his Excellencies Court:
for though they haue got him in prison, he deserves
as well as any.

Cap.
mark you that.

2. Burg.
'tis said
they will cutt of his head

1. Burgr
much: with a Cusshio«n»:
they know he h'as too many Frends.

Burgr
they dare not:
people will talke: I hope ere long to see him
as great as ever:

Burgr.
greater too; I doubt not,
and of more powre: his feet vpon the neckes
of all his Enemies

Or.
I am glad, I heard this:
and Barnauelt shall feele I will make vse of't
Come, follow me.

—Exeunt
Burgr.
So, now the merry Song
we made for his good Lady: lustique hoa:

—Song:
—Enter Wife, aboue.
Wife
All thancks, kind Frends, that a sad house can give ye
pray you receive: for I rest well assurd
though theis sports, are vnseasonable here
they testefie yor loves: and if my Lord
ere lyve to be himself againe, I know
he will remember it.

Burg.
now for the Daunce, Boyes.

—[Daunce].

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Wife
ther's something for your paines; drinck it, I pray:

Burg.
to a doyt, my vroa: to thy Lords health, and thine:
the Bree: for his Excellence, and the Heeres,
that love him not: ten hunderd towsand blessings
to him and thee, my vroa.—

[Daunce]
Wife
I thanck you Frend—

Exeunt