[♦] Alen. To say the truth, it is your policy

160 To save your subjects from such massacre

And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen

By our proceeding in hostility;

And therefore take this compact of a truce,

Although you break it when your pleasure serves.

[165] War. How say’st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?

Char. It shall;

Only reserved, you claim no interest

In any of our towns of garrison.