KING
Yes, any thing dear Balthazar.
BALTHAZAR Suppose I have your strongest pardon, can that cure my wounded conscience? Can there your pardon help me? You not only knock the ewe on the head, but cut the innocent lamb's throat too, yet you are no butcher.
QUEEN
Is this thy promised yielding to an act
So wholesome for thy country?
KING
Chide him not.
BALTHAZAR
I would not have this sin scored on my head
For all the Indian Treasury.
KING
That song no more.
Do this and I will make thee a great man.
BALTHAZAR
Is there no farther trick in't but my blow, your purse and my pardon?
MALTATESTE
No nets upon my life to entrap thee.
BALTHAZAR
Then trust me. These knuckles work it.
KING
Farewell. Be confident and sudden.