Const. What should he say, but as the cardinal?
Lew. Bethink you, father; for the difference
Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,205
Or the light loss of England for a friend:
Forego the easier.
Blanch. That's the curse of Rome.[298]
Const. O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here[299]
In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.[300]
Blanch. The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,[301]210
But from her need.[301]
Const. O, if thou grant my need,[301]
Which only lives but by the death of faith,[301]
That need must needs infer this principle,[301]
That faith would live again by death of need.[301]
O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;[301]215
Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down![301]
K. John. The king is moved, and answers not to this.[301][302]
Const. O, be removed from him, and answer well![301]
Aust. Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.[301]
Bast. Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.[301]220