_Mal._ What, Marmoutiere?
_Gui._ Ay, there a general's heart beat like a drum!
Quick, quick! my reins, my back, and head and breast
Ache, as I'd been a horse-back forty hours.
_Mal._ She has seen the king.
_Gui._ I thought she might. A trick upon me; well.
_Mal._ Passion o' both sides.
_Gui._ His, thou meanest.
_Mal._ On hers.
Down on her knees.
_Gui._ And up again; no matter.
_Mal._ Now all in tears, now smiling, sad at parting.
_Gui._ Dissembled, for she told me this before;
'Twas all put on, that I might hear and rave.
_Mal._ And so, to make sure work on't, by consent
Of Grillon, who is made their bawd,--
_Gui._ Away!
_Mal._ She's lodged at court.
_Gui._ 'Tis false, they do belie her.
_Mal._ But, sir, I saw the apartment.
_Gui._ What, at court?
_Mal._ At court, and near the king; 'tis true, by heaven:
I never play'd you foul, why should you doubt me?
_Gui._ I would thou hadst, ere thus unmanned my heart!
Blood, battles, fire, and death! I run, I run!
With this last blow he drives me like a coward;
Nay, let me never win a field again,
If, with the thought of these irregular vapours,
The blood ha'nt burst my lips.
_Card._ Peace, brother.
_Gui._ By heaven, I took thee for my soul's physician,
And dost thou vomit me with this loathed peace?
'Tis contradiction: no, my peaceful brother,
I'll meet him now, though fire-armed cherubins
Should cross my way.
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