519519Enter Marques Lubeck, and Mariana. 520520Mariana. Tru
st me my Lord, I am
sorry for your hurt.
521521Lubeck. Gramercie Madam: but it is not great:
522522Onely a thru
st, prickt with a Rapiers point.
523523Mariana. How grew the quarrell my Lord?
524524Lubeck. Sweet Ladie, for thy
sake.
525525There was this la
st night two maskes in one company.
526526My
selfe the formo
st: The other
strangers were:
527527Among
st the which, when the Mu
sick began to
sound the Mea
-(
sures,
528528Each Masker made choice of his Ladie:
529529And one more forward then the re
st stept towards thee:
530530Which I perceiuing thru
st him a
side, and tooke thee my
selfe.
531531But this was taken in
so ill part,
532532That at my comming out of the court gate, with iu
stling together,
533533It was my chance to be thru
st into the arme.
534534The doer thereof becau
se he was the originall cau
se of the di
sorder
535535At that inconuenient time, was pre
sently committed,
536536And is this morning
sent for to aun
swer the matter:
Here enters
537537And I think here he comes. What Sir
Robert of
Windsor how now?
Sir Robert of
538538Sir Robert. Ifaith my Lord a pri
soner: but what ailes your arme?
Windsor with
539539Lubeck. Hurt the la
st night by mi
schance.
a Gaylor.
540540Sir Robert. What, not in the maske at the Court gate?
541541Lubeck. Yes tru
st me there.
542542Sir Rob. Why then my Lord I thank you for my nights lodging.
543543Lubeck. And I you for my hurt, if it were
so;
544544Keeper awaie, I di
scharge you of your pri
soner.
Exit the Keeper. 545545Sir Rob. Lord
Marques, you o
fferd me di
sgrace to
shoulder me.
546546Lubeck. Sir I knew you not, and therefore you mu
st pardon me
547547And the rather it might be alleaged to me of
548548Meere
simplicitie, to
see another daunce with my Mi
stris
549549Di
sgui
sed, and I my
selfe in pre
sence: but
seeing it
550550Was our haps to damni
fie each other vnwillingly,
551551Let vs be content with our harmes,
552552And lay the fault where it was, and
so become friends.
553553Sir Robert. Yfaith I am content with my nights lodging
554554If you be content with your hurt.
555555Lubeck. Not content that I haue it, but content
556556To forget how I came by it.
557557Sir Robert. My Lord, here comes Ladie
Blanch, lets away.
559559Lubeck. With good will, Ladie you will
stay?
560560Exit Lubeck and Sir Robert. 562562Blanch. Mariana, as I am grieued with thy pre
sence:
563563So am I not o
ffended for thy ab
sence,
564564And were it not a breach to mode
stie,
565565Thou
shoulde
st know before I left thee.
566566Mariana. How neare is this humor to madne
sse
567567If you hold on as you begin, you
568568are in a pretty way to
scolding.
569569Blanch. To
sculding hu
swife?
570570Mariana. Madam here comes one.
571571Here enters one with a letter. 572572Blaunch. There doth indeed. Fellow woulde
st thou haue any
573573Thing with any body here?
574574Messenger. I haue a letter to deliuer to the Ladie
Mariana.
576576Messen. There mu
st none but
shee haue it.
577577Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him, Et exit messenger. 579579And therefore to ea
se the anger I
su
staine,
580580Ile be
so bold to open it, whats here?
581581Sir
Robert greets you well?
582582Your Mai
stries, his loue, his life; Oh amorous man,
583583How he entertaines his new Mai
stres;
584584And be
stowes on
Lubeck his odde friend
585585A horne night cap to keepe in his wit.
586586Mariana. Madam though you haue di
scourteou
sly
587587Read my letter, yet I pray you giue it me.
588588Blaunch. Then take it there, and there, and there.
589589She teares it. Et exit Blaunch. 590590Mariana. How far doth this di
ffer from mode
stie:
591591Yet will I gather vp the peeces, which haply
592592May
shew to me the intent thereof
594594She gathers vp the peeces and ioynes them. 595595Mariana. Your
seruant and loue
sir
Robert of
Windsor 596596Alius William the
Conqueror, wi
sheth long health and happine
sse.
597597Is this
William the
Conqueror,
shrouded vnder
598598The name of
sir
Robert of
Windsor? 599599Were he the Monarch of the world
600600He
should not di
spo
se
sse
Lubeck of his loue.
601601Therefore I will to the Court, and there if I can
602602Clo
se to be freinds with Ladie
Blaunch,
603603And thereby keepe
Lubeck my loue for my
selfe:
604604And further the Ladie
Blanch in her
sute as much as I may.
Exit.