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Scena 4.

Enter Bardh, or Chorus.
Bardh.
Thus haue you seen a man, whose daring thoughts,
Euen hell it selfe, the treasury of terrours,
Whose very shapes make Nature looke agast,
Cannot outface. Now once more turne your eyes,
And view the sudden mutabilities,
That wayte vpon the greatest fauourite
That euer Fortune fauourde with her loue,
Sterne Caradoc, vertuously returnd,
Hoping to see his beautious Queene and friends,
His sister Uoada, whom he had left
With trecherous Cornwall, who villain-like betraid
The Towne and Uoada, as yet a mayde,
Vnto the hands of Marcus Gallicus,
Sonne to the Romane General, who, as we saw,
Was farre inamor'd of that warlike Dame,
And to the Romane Band conducts her safe,
Whilest Gald, her husband, flies to saue his life,
And in disguise, seekes the Magician forth,
Intreating him by prayers, sighes and teares,
To helpe him by his Arte, whilest Caradocs fayre Queene,
Together with her daughter, made escape,
And fled vnto her Lord, who being inraged,
His manly courage doubled his resolue,
The Romane hoste pursuing of his Queene
And her young daughter. Who, when Caradoc espide,
Arm'd with a strength inuincible, he fought
In single opposition 'gainst an hoste:
Which famous battell, because histories,
Aboue the rest, to his immortall fame,
Haue quoted forth, willing to giue it life
And euerlasting motion, with the rest
Shall be in liuely Sceanes by him exprest.

Alarum.