Nou. Se. He had frô the state
Sufficent entertainment for the Army.
Char. Sufficient? My Lord, you sit at home,
And though your fees are boundlesse at the barre: [190]
Are thriftie in the charges of the warre,
But your wills be obeyd. To these I turne,
To these soft-hearted men, that wisely know
They are onely good men, that pay what they owe.
2 Cred. And so they are.
1 Cred. ’Tis the City Doctrine, [195]
We stand bound to maintaine it.
Char. Be constant in it,
And since you are as mercilesse in your natures,
As base, and mercenary in your meanes
By which you get your wealth, I will not vrge
The Court to take away one scruple from [200]
The right of their lawes, or one good thought
In you to mend your disposition with.
I know there is no musique in your eares
So pleasing as the groanes of men in prison,
And that the teares of widows, and the cries [205]
Of famish’d Orphants, are the feasts that take you.
That to be in your danger, with more care
Should be auoyded, then infectious ayre,
The loath’d embraces of diseased women,
A flatterers poyson, or the losse of honour. [210]
Yet rather then my fathers reuerent dust
Shall want a place in that faire monument,
In which our noble Ancestors lye intomb’d,
Before the Court I offer vp my selfe
A prisoner for it: loade me with those yrons [215]
That haue worne out his life, in my best strength
Ile run to th’ incounter of cold hunger,
And choose my dwelling where no Sun dares enter,
So he may be releas’d.
1 Cred. What meane you sir?
2 Aduo. Onely your fee againe: ther’s so much sayd [220]
Already in this cause, and sayd so well,
That should I onely offer to speake in it,
I should not bee heard, or laught at for it.
1 Cred. ’Tis the first mony aduocate ere gaue backe,
Though hee sayd nothing.
Roch. Be aduis’d, young Lord, [225]
And well considerate, you throw away
Your liberty, and ioyes of life together:
Your bounty is imployd vpon a subiect
That is not sensible of it, with which, wise man
Neuer abus’d his goodnesse; the great vertues [230]
Of your dead father vindicate themselues,
From these mens malice, and breake ope the prison,
Though it containe his body.
Nou. Se. Let him alone,
If he loue Lords, a Gods name let him weare ’em,
Prouided these consent.