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50 For I begin to forget all my Hate, And take't unkindly that mine Enemy Should use me so extraordinarily scurvily.

Mel.I shall melt too, if you begin to take Unkindnesses: I never meant you hurt.

Cal.Thou'lt anger me again; thou wretched Rogue, Meant me no hurt! Disgrace me with the King; Lose all my Offices! This is no hurt, Is it? I prethee what dost thou call hurt?

Mel.To poison Men, because they love me not; To call the credit of Mens Wives in question; To murder Children betwixt me and Land; this is all hurt.

Cal.All this thou think'st is sport; For mine is worse: But use thy will with me; For betwixt Grief and Anger, I cou'd cry.

Mel.Be wise then, and be safe; thou may'st revenge.

Cal.Ay, o' the King? I wou'd revenge of thee.

Mel.That you must plot your self.

Cal.I am a fine Plotter.

Mel.The short is, I will hold thee with the King In this perplexity, till peevishness And thy Disgrace have laid thee in thy Grave: But if thou wilt deliver up the Fort, I'll take thy trembling Body in my Arms, And bear thee over Dangers; thou shalt have thy wonted state.

Cal.If I should tell the King, canst thou deny't again?

Mel.Try and believe.

Cal.Nay then, thou canst bring any thing about: Thou shalt have the Fort.

Mel.Why well, here let our Hate be buried; and This Hand shall right us both; Give me thy aged Breast to compass.

Cal.Nay, I do not love thee yet: I cannot well endure to look on thee: And, if I thought it were a courtesie, Thou shouldst not have it: But I am disgrac'd; My Offices are to be ta'en away; And if I did but hold this Fort a day, I do believe the King would take it from me, And give it thee, things are so strangely carried; Ne'er thank me for't; but yet the King shall know There was some such thing in't I told him of; And that I was an honest Man.

Mel.He'll buy that Knowledge very dearly. What News with thee? Diph.