Mar. Though you have all this worth, you hold some qualities that do Eclipse your vertues.

Have I had all this care to do her grace, To prove her vertues and her love to thee, And standst thou fearefull now?

Goe to; my [Mrs.] I appeal to, she that knowes my vertue and Integrity.

What ere you are, so much I love your vertue, That I desire your friendship: do you unloose him From those bonds, you are worthy of: your repentance Makes part of satisfaction; yet I must Severely reprehend you.

And I comend your vertue, but thys suyte Is past all restytution: to thys prynce I've given all your father governed.

Should I suffer So brave a Gentleman as Philip is To wed himselfe to my unworthy selfe, It would be counted vertue in the Prince

O sacred friendship, thanks to thy kinde power, That being retir'd from all the faithlesse World, Appear'st to me in my unworldly friend, And for thine own sake let his noble minde, By moving presedent to all his kinde, (Like just Deucalion) of Earths stony bones Repaire the World with humaine bloud and flesh, And dying vertue with new life refresh.

Why then he talked in his Sleep too, Nay, I'le divulge your moral vertues (sheeps-face)

who shall put to his power To draw those vertues out of a flood of humors, When they are drown'd, and make'em shine again?

Take heed Bellario, How thou dost drown the vertues thou hast shown With perjury.

Or love or friendship, whether shall exceed, Ile explaine your vertue in this following deed.

In his nine sections on poetry he says nothing about style, except to quote Oicero to the effect that "the Poet is the nearest Borderer upon the Orator, and expresseth all his vertues, though he be tyed more to numbers."

thou hast no hope to scape; he that dares most, and damns away his soul to do thee service, will sooner fetch meat from a hungry Lion, than come to rescue thee; thou hast death about thee: h'as undone thine honour, poyson'd thy vertue, and of a lovely rose, left thee a canker.

Tyrant, be mercifull; And if thou hast no other vertue in thee Deserving memory to succeeding ages, Yet onely thy not suffering such an out-rage Shall adde praise to thy name.

Who dares in all this presence speak (that is But man of flesh and may be mortal) tell me I do not most intirely love this Prince, And honour his full vertues! King.

Fro[m] this idleness, Diseases, both in body and in mind, grow strong upon you; where a stirring nature, with wholesome exercise, guards both from danger: I'd have thee rise with the Sun, walk, dance, or hunt, visit the Groves and Springs, and learn the vertue of Plants and Simples: Do this moderately, and thou shalt not, with eating Chalk, or Coles, Leather and Oatmeal, and such other trash, fall into the Green-sickness.

From this idlenesse Diseases both in body and in minde Grow strong upon you; where a stirring nature With wholesome exercise guards both from danger: I'de have thee rise with the Sunne, walke, dance or hunt, Visite the groves and springs, and learne the vertue Of Plants and Simples: Doe this moderately, And thou shall not with eating chalke, or coales, Leather and oatmeale, and such other trash, Fall into the greene sicknesse.

O you great working powers of Earth and Air, Water and forming fire, why have you lent Your hidden vertues of so ill intent?

A Witch, a Sorceress: I tell thee but the truth; and hear Demetrius, Which has so dealt upon thy bloud with charms, Devilish and dark; so lockt up all thy vertues; So pluckt thee back from what thou sprungst from, glorious.

Doth loose the vertue which the vse would prove.

All the great curious Cataphlasmes, Or the live taile of a deplum[e]d Henne, Or your hot Pigeons or your quartered whelpes; For they by a meere forc'd attractive power Retaine that safely which by force was drawne, Whereas the other things I nam'd before Do lose their vertue as they lose their heat.

let me be swallowed quick, if I can find, in all the Anatomy of yon mans vertues, one sinew sound enough to promise for him, he shall be Constable.

And honour thou art bound to meet her vertues: She that forgot the greatness of her grief And miseries, that must follow such mad passions, Endless and wild as women; she that for thee And with thee left her liberty, her name, And Country, you have paid me equal, Heavens, And sent my own rod to correct me with; A woman: for inconstancy I'le suffer, Lay it on justice, till my soul melt in me

And those too many excellencies, that feed Your pride, turn to a Pleurisie, and kill That which should nourish vertue; dare you think All blessings are confer'd on you alone?

O Ganelon, Teache me a meanes t'expresse the gratytude I owe thy vertues for thys royall matche, Whereby me thynks my ice is tournd to fyer, My earthe to ayre; those twoe base elements Can challendge nothinge in my composition, As thou and Theodora now have made me: For whiche be thou our lorde greate Cunstable.