Men. You both go jointly to the citadel;
There sup, there poison him: and Maria, 230
Because she is our opposite, shall bear
The sad suspect; on which she dies or loves us.
Mal. I run.
[Exit.
Men. We that are great, our sole self-good still moves us.
They shall die both, for their deserts crave more
Than we can recompense: their presence still
Imbraids[505] our fortunes with beholdingness,
Which we abhor; like deed, not doer: then conclude,
They live not to cry out “Ingratitude!”
One stick burns t’other, steel cuts steel alone: 240
’Tis good trust few; but, O, ’tis best trust none!
[Exit.
[484] The tagged laces by which the busk (the upright piece of whalebone in the front of the stays) was fastened.
[485] A slow solemn dance.
[486] “Qy. ‘Los guantes?’ Mr. Collier (Shakespeare Soc. Papers, i. 28), quotes from Rawlinson’s MS. No. 108, Bodl. Lib., a list of dances, among which is ‘Quarto dispayne;’ while Mr. Halliwell (Dict. of Arch. and Prov. Words) gives from the same MS., ‘Quanto-dispaine.’—In Munday’s Banquet of Daintie Conceits, 1588, is:—
“‘A Dyttie expressing a familiar controversie between Wit and Will: wherein Wit mildlie rebuketh the follies of Will, and sheweth him (as in a glasse) the fall of wilfull heads.