Volume Xiv Part 29 (1/2)

ELE. Say, will you?

BOTH. Ay.

ELE. Why start you back and stare?

Ha! are you afraid?

COLE. O, no, sir, no! but, truth to tell, Seeing your face, we thought of h.e.l.l.

ELE. h.e.l.l is a dream.

COLE. But none do dream in h.e.l.l.

ELE. Friars, stand to her and me; and by your sin I'll shoulder out Mendoza from his seat, And of two friars create you cardinals.

O, how would cardinals' hats on their heads sit?

COLE. This face would look most goodly under it.

Friar[s] Crab and Cole do swear In those circles still to appear, In which she or you do charge us rise; For you our lives we'll sacrifice.

_Valete, gaudete: Si pereamus, flete; Orate pro n.o.bis, Oremus pro vobis._ Cole will be burnt and Crab be press'd, Ere they prove knaves; thus are you cross'd and bless'd.

ELE. Away! you know. [_Exeunt_ FRIARS.] Now, madam, none shall throw Their leaden envy in an opposite scale, To weigh down our true golden happiness.

QUEEN-M. Yes, there is one.

ELE. One! who?

Give me his name, and I will turn It to a magic spell to bind Him here, here. Who?

QUEEN-M. Your wife Maria.

ELE. Ha! my Maria!

QUEEN-M. She's The h.e.l.lespont divides my love and me: She being cut off----

ELE. Stay, stay; cut off!

Let's think upon't; my wife!

Humph! kill her too!

QUEEN-M. Does her love make thee cold?

ELE. Had I a thousand wives, down go they all.

She dies; I'll cut her off. Now, Balthazar!

_Enter_ BALTHAZAR.

BAL. Madam, the king entreats your company.

QUEEN-M. His pleasure be obey'd. Dear love, farewell; Remember your Maria.

[_Exit._