This knight, no less for bounty bound to us That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, With patches, colors, and with forms, being fetch'd From glistering semblances of piety: But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee stand up, 1 Uttered no exclamation of surprise, Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. If that same dæmon, that hath gull'd thee thus, The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? Why, so didst thou: Seem they grave and learned ? Why, so didst thou: Why, so didst thou: Come they of noble family? Why, so didst thou: Or are they spare in diet; 1 Tartarus. 2 Accomplishment. • Endowed. Exe. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Richard earl of Cambridge. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Henry lord Scroop of Masham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Scroop. Our purposes God justly hath discover'd; Cam. For me, the gold of France did not seduce; The sooner to effect what I intended: Grey. Never did faithful subject more rejoice My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign. sentence. You have conspired against our royal person, Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd, and from his coffers Received the golden earnest of our death; Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter, His subjects to oppression and contempt, And his whole kingdom unto desolation. A |