Banish amazement: come, we four must stand
Full shock of fortune: be not so wonder-stricken.
Pietro. Doth Ferneze live?
Fer. For your pardon.
Pietro. Pardon and love. Give leave to recollect
My thoughts dispers’d in wild astonishment.
My vows stand fix’d in heaven, and from hence 170
I crave all love and pardon.
Mal. Who doubts of providence,
That sees this change? a hearty faith to all!
He needs must rise who[526] can no lower fall:
For still impetuous vicissitude
Touseth[527] the world; then let no maze intrude
Upon your spirits: wonder not I rise;
For who can sink that close can temporise?
The time grows ripe for action: I’ll detect
My privat’st plot, lest ignorance fear suspect.
Let’s close to counsel, leave the rest to fate: 180
Mature discretion is the life of state.
[Exeunt.
[506] Ed. 1. “in.”
[507] Ed. 2. “rand.”
[508] Some copies of ed. 1. “mazde.”