KING
If I be,
Then here's my first mad fit.
CARDINAL
For honour's sake,
For love you bear to conscience -
KING
Reach the flames:
Grandees and Lords of Spain be witness all
What here I cancel. Read, do you know this bond?
ALL
Our hands are to it.
DAENIA
'Tis your confirmed contract
With my sad kinswoman: but wherefore Sir,
Now is your rage on fire, in such a presence
To have it mourn in ashes?
KING
Marquis Daenia
We'll lend that tongue, when this no more can speak.
CARDINAL
Dear Sir!
KING
I am deaf,
Played the full concert of the spheres unto me
Upon their loudest strings - so burn that witch
Who would dry up the tree of all Spain's glories,
But that I purge her sorceries by fire.
[Burns contract.]
Troy lies in cinders. Let your Oracles
Now laugh at me if I have been deceived
By their ridiculous riddles. Why, good father,
Now you may freely chide, why was your zeal
Ready to burst in showers to quench our fury?