Baum. There is no want
Of any summe a priuate man has use for.
Roch. ’Tis well:
I am strangely taken with this Charaloyes;
Me thinkes, from his example, the whole age
Should learne to be good, and continue so. [300]
Vertue workes strangely with vs: and his goodnesse
Rising aboue his fortune, seemes to me
Princelike, to will, not aske a courtesie.
Exeunt.
Act. secundus.
Scæna prima:
[A Street before the Prison]
Enter Pontalier, Malotin, Baumont.
Mal. Tis strange.
Baum. Me thinkes so.
Pont. In a man, but young,
Yet old in iudgement, theorique, and practicke
In all humanity (and to increase the wonder)
Religious, yet a Souldier, that he should
Yeeld his free liuing youth a captiue, for [5]
The freedome of his aged fathers Corpes,
And rather choose to want lifes necessaries,
Liberty, hope of fortune, then it should
In death be kept from Christian ceremony.