sink quick to perdition if my tongue discover it!

Per. Tis thus, then: this last night my lord

lay forth, and I, watching my ladies sitting up,[205]

stole up at midnight from my pallat, and (having

before made a hole both through the wall and

arras to her inmost chamber) I saw D'Ambois

and her selfe reading a letter!

Mons. D'Ambois![210]

Per. Even he, my lord.