K. Ush. Set down the Funeral Pile, and let our grief
K. Ush. Receive, from its embraces, some relief.
K. Phys. Was't not unjust to ravish hence her breath,
K. Phys. And, in life's stead, to leave us nought but death?
K. Phys. The world discovers now its emptiness,
K. Phys. And, by her loss, demonstrates we have less.
K. Ush. Lardella, O Lardella, from above,
K. Ush. Behold the Tragick issue of our Love.
K. Ush. Pitie us, sinking under grief and pain,
K. Ush. For thy being cast away upon the Main.
Bayes. Pray mark it.
Bayes. Since death my earthly part will thus remove [Reads.
Bayes. I'l come a Humble Bee to your chaste love.
Bayes. With silent wings I'll follow you, dear Couz;
Bayes. Or else, before you, in the Sun-beams buz.
Bayes. And when to Melancholy Groves you come,
Bayes. An Airy Ghost, you'l know me by my Hum;
Bayes. For sound, being Air, a Ghost does well become.
Bayes. At night, into your bosom I will creep,
Bayes. And Buz but softly if you chance to sleep:
Bayes. Yet, in your Dreams, I will pass sweeping by,
Bayes. And then, both Hum and Buz before your eye.
Bayes. Your bed of Love, from dangers I will free;
Bayes. But most, from love of any future Bee.
Bayes. And when, with pitie, you heart-strings shall crack,
Bayes. With emptie arms I'l bear you on my back.
Bayes. Ay, I gad, but is not that tuant now, ha? is it not tuant? Here's the end.
Bayes. Then, at your birth of immortality,
Bayes. Like any winged Archer, hence I'l fly,
Bayes. And teach you your first flutt'ring in the Sky.
K. Phys. Come sword, come sheath thy self within this brest,
K. Phys. That only in Lardella's Tomb can rest.
K. Ush. Come, dagger, come, and penetrate this heart,
K. Ush. Which cannot from Lardella's Love depart.
Pal. Hold, stop your murd'ring hands
Pal. At Pallases commands:
Pal. For the supposed dead, O Kings,
Pal. Forbear to act such deadly things.
Pal. Lardella lives: I did but try
Pal. If Princes for their Loves could dye.
Pal. Such Cœlestial constancie
Pal. Shall, by the Gods, rewarded be:
Pal. And from these Funeral obsequies
Pal. A Nuptial Banquet shall arise.
K. Ush. Resplendent Pallas, we in thee do find
K. Ush. The fiercest Beauty, and a fiercer mind:
K. Ush. And since to thee Lardella's life we owe,
K. Ush. We'l supple Statues in thy Temple grow.
K. Phys. Well, since alive Lardella's found,
K. Phys. Let, in full Boles, her health go round.
[The two Usurpers take each of them a Bole in their hands.
Draw. He that dares drink, and for that drink dares die,
Draw. And, knowing this, dares yet drink on, am I.
K. Ush. Sir, if you please, we should be glad to know
K. Ush. How long you here will stay, how soon you'l go.
Draw. You shall not know how long I here will stay;
Draw. But you shall know I'l take my Boles away.
[Snatches the Boles out of the Kings hands, and drinks 'em off.
K. Ush. Though, Brother, this grum stranger be a Clown,
K. Ush. He'l leave us, sure, a little to gulp down.
Draw. Who e'er to gulp one drop of this dares think
Draw. I'l stare away his very pow'r to drink.
[The two Kings sneak off the Stage, with their Attendants.