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Scen. 1.

Aberden, Yernomy, Fafrisius, Buzaraine, Nevermo, Drum, Trumpet, a Florish, Souldiers.
Aber.
Receiv'd with gladness still my Lords you are,
Gladly receiv'd, I say; we'l suffer all
Our hands to be now numb'd with sense, let fall
Our deadly swords; nothing in opposition
Stands, we hear, but the whole Universe
Endures in a paralectick posture; vast
Worlds did Julius Cesar conquer, yet ne're
Was able to withdraw our minds, but forc't
To fly our summons; we'l range the steepy
Bancks, those which with rudenesse hide
Titan his raies, seek some terra incognita.
Where men are absent, beasts may fulfil
Our Warlike, yet not willful, incentions;
Let us find it out, that by the prospect
We'l gain the Victory, and surround the foe,
Drench their hot hearts, as we all else, you know.

Yer.
None dare appear: but Numenia land
Is said to have a will, bent to withstand
Your Majesties (dread Soveraign) Army, for
To know the right of Kingdoms, we abhor.

Faf.
The same, great Aberden, I will confirm, that
They did help with unknown, potent strength,
The last great Camp we rais'd; shewing to them
Benigne favours, so they took them for their friends,
No foe; which caus'd detard in winning the
Rich Trophies, that you overcame at length.

Aber.
What? sure it cannot be; but if perchance
That they do act a matter so disliking
Me and mine, they shall not further trouble
Their dull braines to make a search in pursuit
After it; but I will so imploy their
Grasping hands, to set all labour by, but what
Concerns the martiall Banner, and bring it
Home to them; War, which treads dame Nature's
Courses, trampling under feet, her set
Delivered forms, shall disclose, inclose to
This Realm, strange unheard Iles. Numenia,
With the rest of former Victories, shall
Know my tribute; and I'l quickly see
Wherein they my great force do disobay,
Find them as farre as stars doth light the way.

Buz.
Then let us make a rule, and raise a Camp,
Fall on them undiscreatly, and berdane
Their Forces of a time, in which they
Premeditating, may find Ammunition
To dissolve our Troops, and to disgorge
The obdure faculty of their sense,
Defraud them in the time, and send them all
To the native Earth, the Mother which they call,
And fitly may be term'd so, and boyling
Blood into the air, by the meteorious form
Of it, a strange essence make, a full
Similitude betwixt, we foresee they
Purpose for to lead on; but let us go.

Aber.
Pray know for what, and why you do so,

Nev.
The thing is known, Aberden; yea, it is,
Great Soveraign.

Aber,
See that the thing be fit,
And bear, within its selfe, the full prologue
Whereby it purposes to maintain its selfe,
For too rash Counsell often breeds within
A subject height, which may be call'd a sin,
And that in prodigality, then done
Beside its shifts, it can no other shun,
But come to ruine.

Yer.
I, it is so, but this is not so bent,
Because, great King, we have Your Counsel in't.

Aber.
But for I know, rash counsel doth maintain.

Faf.
Fear not that thought, for it will prove most vaine,

Aber.
If it be so, yet danger may be with

Buz.
It cannot be, it is a thing of mirth.

Aber.
Your censure so the subject for to be.

Nev.
Yea, that we do, that to eternity.

Yer.
So, shall we move with freenesse, till we come
To that same object, which we in delay,
Do stand most fearfull of, hoyst sails
To it, search the triangular shapes
Within its Region, where all the Pole doth count
Full fifty Degrees it doth with height surmount,
Yet comes not near the torrid Zone, whereby
Our skins are scorched, and our flesh doth fry;
We'l know the nature of Numenia's Land,
In what longitude, or latitude doth stand.

Aber.
We'l know my Son his resolution to
This great design, this overtaking of
(I hope it will not be so as I call or prove
In it) our strange unseeming enterprise,
In following that my subjects do devise.

Exeunt.