Hub. If I have sinn'd forgive me, you iust powers:
My ignorance, not cruelty has don't.
And here I vow my selfe to be hereafter
What ere Bellina shall instruct me in:
For she was never made but to possesse
The highest Mansion 'mongst your Dignities,
Nor can Heaven let her erre.
Bellina. On that condition thus I spread my armes,
Whose chaste embraces ne're toucht man before;
And will to Hubert all the favour shew
His vertuous love can covet.
I will be ever his; goe thou to Warre,
These hands shall arme thee; and Ile watch thy Tent
Till from the battaile thou bring'st victory.
In peace Ile sit by thee and read or sing
Stanzaes of chaste love, of love purifi'd
From desires drossie blacknesse; nay when our clouds
Of ignorance are quite vanisht, and that a holy
Religious knot between us may be tyed,
Bellina here vowes to be Hubert's bride:
Else doe I sweare perpetuall chastity.
Hub. Thy vowes I seale, be thou my ghostly Tutor; And, all my actions levell'd to thy thoughts, I am thy Creature.
Bellina. Let Heaven, too, but now propitious prove And for thy soule thou hast wonne a happy love. Come, shall we to my Father.
[Exeunt.
(Soft Musick)
(SCENE 4.)
Enter the King on his bed, two Physitians, Anthony Damianus and Cosmo.
King. Are you Physitians? Are you those men that proudly call your selves The helps of Nature?
Ant. Oh, my good Lord, have patience.