Baligny. So foule a scandall never man sustain'd,

Which caus'd by th'King is rude and tyrannous:

Give me a place, and my Lieutenant make

The filler of it!

Renel. I should never looke

For better of him; never trust a man5

For any justice, that is rapt with pleasure;

To order armes well, that makes smockes his ensignes,

And his whole governments sayles: you heard of late

Hee had the foure and twenty wayes of venerie

Done all before him.

Bal. Twas abhorr'd and beastly.10

Ren. Tis more then natures mightie hand can doe

To make one humane and a letcher too.

Looke how a wolfe doth like a dogge appeare,

So like a friend is an adulterer;

Voluptuaries, and these belly-gods,15

No more true men are then so many toads.

Bal. Give, and then take, like children!

Ren. Bounties are

As soone repented as they happen rare.20

Bal. What should Kings doe, and men of eminent places,

But, as they gather, sow gifts to the graces?

And where they have given, rather give againe

(Being given for vertue) then, like babes and fooles,

Take and repent gifts? why are wealth and power?25

Ren. Power and wealth move to tyranny, not bountie;

The merchant for his wealth is swolne in minde,

When yet the chiefe lord of it is the winde.

Bal. That may so chance to our state-merchants too;

Something performed, that hath not farre to goe.30

Ren. That's the maine point, my lord; insist on that.

Bal. But doth this fire rage further? hath it taken

The tender tynder of my wifes sere bloud?

Is shee so passionate?

Ren. So wilde, so mad,

Bal. There is no looking home, then?

Ren. Home! Medea

With all her hearbs, charmes, thunders, lightning,40

Made not her presence and blacke hants more dreadfull.

Bal. Come, to the King; if he reforme not all,

Marke the event, none stand where that must fall. Exeunt.