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Enter. Varletti: Kathrine
Kath.
Banisht from Court?

Varl.
yes Banisht from court, & like a sentles hownd past servyce
rebuked & rated home to my kennell, by the Barons & the king

Kath.
the king! thow shouldst, I durst & wood ha told the['m] king
he dealt not like him selfe, but tis a curse
ffollowes a woman that like me will marry
a man of a Mans makeinge, capable
of no prferment more then cap and knee
can scrape from a kings smiles, & wt. are they?
but dyeing vanities, blossomes that fade
& fall off ith bloome, wert thow a Man yet?

Varl
man, mad woma: wt am I else a beast? but no more thow
dost but ad wings to the winde & throw oyle into Eatna, for
how ever I seme to force a slavish patience I could [chew my] in [the] a
[noble]/[mere] Bitternes of vexation chew my gall and spit it in the
ffaces of the proud Barronns. But that forgetfull Prorex

Kath.
Now I comend thy spirt
& will Ioyne strengthes in thy Revenge. thine ere
yong Geraldine sonn to [the] Earle [of] clarydon—

Varl.
[Hates me for wearing of his fathers title, champeon]

Kath.
[that hate (wt h a trick I have) Ile turne to Love]

Varl.
[trust not to [that] tricks, hele out [trick]/[Iugle] vs both if it come to [that]/[tricks]]
out
[once, [he is as]/[for] I am [faithfully]/[credibly] Informd, he is by the king [to get]]
Imploid vpon intelligence to get wt hin & betray my Loyalty]

Kath:
[thers subiect for my Wit to worke on then,]
out
[I know hym to be desperate, Humerous strong]
[in Tenants & in [freinds] Allyes.]

Varl.
[& wt can yor wit worke out of all that now.]

Kath.
[make him a freind & beare go An equall share venturer.]
[in yor maine faction]
[I mary sir Hic Labor Hoc opus. this were a Labour worthy a she Hercules]

Varl.
[such a trick handsomly playd woold be a good help to a weak game Indeed[OMITTED]]

Kath.
[feart not tis sure, now sr the news wt h yow.]

Enter. serv. yong Geraldine
Kath:
the man I wisht admit him
Ile to work streight

Varl.
& wt must I stand Idle

Kath.
Onely salute & complement, observe
out.
[be wise & make the best vse of yr knowledg]
[for warnd halfe Amd.]

Varl.
[but for the trick yw talkt on.]

Kath.
[the rest]/[Leave that] to me, yw shall se prety sport]
A Lamb beguile a ffox Ile hunt close fort.

Enter Gerald wt h a Pardon
Ger
Now Rome for a knave cu privelegio [for] & vnder pardon being
spoken I am a kinde of state Intelligencer, [«bu»t]

Varl.
my Lord of Clare, wt. er yr Busyness be
yar nobly wellcome

Ger:
noe great Busyness sr. onely kynde visitacion to yor self
& to renue acquaintance wt h my prety play fellow yor wife

Varl.
they ha byn at game then, why tis kindly done, And to the
best Intertainment, a dispicd Iaile can yeild (my howse
at this tymes no better) yar frely wellcome

Ger
Soe much I hard, & wonder at yor more then manly
fortitude to beare it, that proud Baron Conon—

Varl.
is a noble gentlema & worthely wears the Honor s I put off

Ger.
whither yow put em off, or the prorex pluckt em off [I]
In dubio est is a dowt amongst Doctors
[know not]: But I thought to have found yow in the full
heat & Harvest of action, writeing & receveing letters. solliciteing
ffreinds somoneing Tenants, & busy as a Bee, in building
vp the [body] frame of a new ffaction, if he has any spark of revenge
in him this will kindle it or nothing, Is yor life in chase by Lyons
& Tigers? & yow ronn a scaperloiteing wt h boyes after
Beetles & butter fflyes the very thought ont mads me,

Varl.
never moves me: Bid thy freind wellcome Kate
I wisht for a chaire of ease & now I hate—

Ext
Ger.
a stoick a mere Tymonist I may make wast paper
of my pardon, theres no such vanity as speaking off
treason in Rerum natura

Kath.
pray sr a word

Ger
wt h me swete play fellow?

Kath
wt h yow sr. tho my husband like a hogg—

Ger.
A swine, a very Boarish Animall & Lookes—

Kath.
no higher then the trough he eats his huskes in I have
an ey—to wepe myne owne & a hart to compassionate [hart]
[to mourne] my freinds wrong

Ger.
How yor freinds—a my life in Love wt h me—

Kath.
yes yours.
for how ere clowded. yow are in deathes black booke
as depe as we

Ger
I in deathes Bookes for wt. I never bought nor sold wt h
[that slipery m'chant]/[him], how the devill should I come in his Bookes then,
& for wt.

Kath.
for feare yow should revenge yor fathers murder.

Ger.
my fathers murder

thers treason a c[OMITTED]ing the mints going
already Ile help to stampe it, they wc h they

(Marginal note)

Kath
yes they poisend him.

Ger
The Barrons?

Kath.
& the prorex.

Ger:
did I [mary sr.]/[not say soe] why this is treason to my harts Desire, It honyes
me A litle more & I surffeit: I hard such a whisper Indeed

Kath.
that whisper now is growne to a full voice
& sayes the prorex poisend Clarydon,—

Ger.
And this
be not as trew treason as ever Tobacho shop or Taverne yelds thers no spirit in Canary.

Kath.
& cause my husband wood not yeild consent
they Banisht [me]/[him] the court.

she draws me into play spite of my teth

(Marginal note)

Ger.
& sent me a Batfowleing to catch him in the limbush of

Kat.
Intelligence, I could have told yow that [too]. afore too.
his life they cannot touch tho.

Ger.
nor I nether he lyes at too sure guard, & I comend him fort too. some of
there coppie holds Ile touch to the quick tho.

Kath.
Las wt s one single valour gainst so many
could yow but worke my husband to yr faction

Ger.
How work him toot, he wonnot, canot sha not deny me

Kath.

Ger.
by the? in any thing, why thart my patrone, my protection my Polletico
my pardon is a meere parenthesis to her, (& yet if Varletti should
stand off: as all things considerd, he has no great reason to come
on. I shalbe as able to powder the prorex as he was to
poisen my father,

Kath.
so, I have done, perv'st, and as yow like
the sence, sub scribe or cancellt.

Varl
now for the trick she talkt on—

Ger.
Reads.
Noble Varletti, for my fathers most Inhumaine murder, I
purpose a sharpe & sodaine revenge, In wc h I request yw
to Ioyne & share fortunes, the Prorex dead, we two wilbe
competitors in the crowne: Subscribe it: yes both
wt h my penn & sword. the pen.—yor s. Geraldine.

Varl.
I mary girle This trick cleanly tane vp may Be worth a crowne Indeed

Ger
Brave amazonian. this thy Noble encoragement, name
of a crowne, and easy demonstracōn to attaine it, makes
me all fyer, & active flame, wele kill him at table kneling
at his Devotion

Kath
that were to charitabler. be ruld by me, to morow the
king mainetains a sollemp̄ne hunt for the stag Royall,
at wc h my husband & yor self Disguisd, haveing singled him

Ger.
no more, theres thy fee, when I am king shalt ride in
purple, be sargeant of the Coife & crossclothe, but will
thy husband Ioyne hands thinkst—

Enter Varletti
Varl.
Both hands & Harts, I overhard all, & like it so well, as
give me but that noat to evidence my Loyalty. when
yow come to be king once, as that Honor I dare promise y«w»

Ger.
And Ile desyre no greater, takt wt h my hart

Varl
but it will cost some heads—

Ger
Never feare thine, for the Porex dead, & by thy hand
for tis my purpose to giue the the Honor of it, both
court & comons will hold it an Act in the being A Romaine
worth Cronocle at Least if not Meritorious—

Kath.
& not wt hout cause, for by it they shake off all slavery.

Ger.
redeme there fredomes, displant the Romaine Garison

Varl.
chose & proclaime a king of there owne nation

Kath
And who so fit to succed Tarquī as Brutus—yor self

Ger.
And I had but his berd, his gravetye, we want a beard
a man of experience to countenance & direct vs.

Kath
& well remembred? wt. saye to my vncle Percy banishd
by the Prorex into ffrance.

Varl.
[a man made for the purpose swete Kate write for him stregh[OMITTED]]

Ger
[Percy. I should know him: wt was that Percye]

Varl
[brave mettled fellow, Humorous blody & somwt. vainglorious]

Ger.
[thre admirable virtus in a com̄der. Allex. had none better.]

Varl.
[hees Eminent in em all tho.]

Ger.
[write for him streight, & when I am king once as let me se]
[all this is vnder pardon yet, for till the stroke]
[be given alls veniall no condicion broake]
[& tho I canot rule my tongue Ile governe my hands.]
[let my Romaine spirit take the Honor of that]
[write for [him] thine vncle streight; the prorex downe.]
[we twole be rivalls in the British Crowne]

Ext.
Varl.
[when I have done wt ht, but haveing reacht it once]
[Ile stand alone tumble my Ladder downe]
[if he slip from me, or but one step mistread]
[I haves owne hand here to strike off his head.]

Kath.
[thank her that got it]

Varl.
my she Machevill
excellent in all, best both at good and ill—

ext