University of Virginia Library

SCENE IV.

Enter LADISLAUS, HONORIA, EUBULUS, FERDINAND, &c.
HONORIA.
Now, you know all, Sir, with the motives why
I forc'd him to my apartment; therefore
I do presume, you doubt not now my honour.

LADISLAUS.
I would not, though the whimsy was a strange one.

EUBULUS.
There was no danger in't; you must conceive, Sir,
Being religious, she chose him for a chaplain,
To read old homilies to her i'th' dark;
She's bound to it by her canons.

LADISLAUS.
Still tormented
With thy impertinence!

HONORIA.
By yourself, dear Sir;
I was ambitious only to overthrow
His boasted constancy in his consent;
But for fact, I contemn him; I was never
Unchaste in thought; I labour'd to give proof
What pow'r dwells in this beauty you admire so,
And when you see how soon it hath transform'd him,
As strait you shall,
And with what superstition he adores it,
Determine as you please.

[Exit
LADISLAUS.
Well, I'll observe the issue.

EUBULUS.
How had you took this, General, in your wife.

FERDINAND.
As a strange curiosity, but Queens
Are privileg'd 'bove subjects, and 'tis fit.

[Exeunt.