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Supply Chain Finance
Supply Chain Finance
Risk management, resilience and
supplier management

Wendy L Tate, Lydia Bals and

Lisa M Ellram
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the authors.

First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2019 by

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CONTENTS

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Table
Foreword by Michiel Steeman

01 Supply chain finance: solutions for financial

sustainability, risk management and resilience in the
supply chain
WENDY L TATE, LISA M ELLRAM AND LYDIA BALS

Abstract
Introduction: supply chain finance (SCF) in theory and
practice
Concluding outlook
References

PART ONE SCF history and perspectives

02 Supply chain finance: history and future directions

LISA M ELLRAM, WENDY L TATE AND RYAN FERNANDES

Abstract
Introduction: the emerging concept of SCF
A little history: what made cash and working capital
king?
Problems with many of the approaches to improving
your own cash position
Considering flow, working capital and cash from a
supply chain perspective
 Potential solutions/approaches to better cash
management in the whole supply chain
Common supply chain policies
Financing other balance sheet items – capital, inventory
and more
Potential funding solution
Where do we go from here?
Notes
References

03 Suppliers, customers and firms’ financial decisions

THOMAS J BOULTON AND MANOJ KULCHANIA

Abstract
Introduction
Capital structure
Trade credit
Supply chain disruptions
Major customers: incidence, pros and cons
Major customers: real effects
Conclusion
Notes
References

04 Supply chain finance: definition, modern aspects and

research challenges ahead
GEORGIOS L VOUSINAS

Abstract
Introduction
Supply chain finance (SCF)
Literature review
Notes
References

PART TWO SCF in action

05 Optimizing cash flows for a retail supply chain
coordinator
RAM GOPALAN

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Previous research in this field
3 The retail supply chain coordinator’s ‘when-to-pay’
problem
4 ‘When-to-pay’ cash flow optimization using
mathematical programming
5 A numerical example
6 A robust optimization approach for modelling
uncertainty
7 Conclusions and future research directions
References

06 Supply chain finance opportunities by managing

payables discounts
TED FARRIS AND SONJA HIGHTOWER

Introduction
Discount programme management: the next low-
hanging fruit
Prescription for effectively managing a payment
discount programme
Implications for the reader
References

07 Mapping and managing the financial supply chain

TED FARRIS AND FAYEZ AHMAD

Introduction
How to start building your supply chain map
Incorporating real data
Further strategic implications
 Conclusion
References

PART THREE SCF in practice – case studies

08 Supply chain finance and cyber risk: an illustrative

case study
BARBARA GAUDENZI, GIORGIA SICILIANO AND GEORGE A
ZSIDISIN

Abstract
Introduction
Cyber risk and SCF: the case of Paul Hartmann Italy
Conclusions
References

09 Commodity risk management at BMW: price indices

and contracts
PANOS MARKOU, DANIEL CORSTEN, CHRISTIAN CARDUCK AND
MICHAEL KOBLBAUER

Abstract
Introduction
Background
Price indices
Implementation of price indices at BMW
Conclusion
References

10 A business partner’s view on decision-making

challenges in the supply chain
MATT CARPENTER AND JASON VAREY

Abstract
Introduction
Sacrificing long-term profitability for short-term gains
Failure to calculate total cost of ownership
 Failure to align the organization correctly on service
levels required vs cost desired
Concluding thoughts
References

PART FOUR SCF in research – trends and future research areas

11 Exploring fragmentation in the supply chain finance

ecosystem
CRISTOF BALS AND LYDIA BALS

Abstract
Introduction
The current SCF ecosystem
Biomimicry – learning from natural ecosystems
Discussion and propositions
Conclusions
References

12 Foundational premises and value drivers of

blockchain-driven supply chains: the trade finance
experience
ERIK HOFMANN, ROGER HEINES AND YAGHOOB OMRAN

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Foundational premises of blockchain-driven supply
chains
3 Blockchain technology case analysis
4 Value drivers of blockchain-based supply chains
5 Conclusion and outlook
Acknowledgement
References

Appendices
Index
Backcover
LIST OF FIGURES

FIGURE 2.1 Buyer-led payables option (000’s omitted)

FIGURE 3.1 Cash, inventory, and supply chain disruptions

FIGURE 3.2 Firms reporting a major customer

FIGURE 4.1 The SCF ‘pyramid’

FIGURE 4.2 Varieties of SCF instruments

FIGURE 4.3 The ‘circuit’ of SCF

FIGURE 4.4 The reverse factoring mechanism

FIGURE 5.1 Flow of accounts payable(s) and receivable(s) for the

RSCC

FIGURE 5.2 Illustration of cash flows for numerical example

FIGURE 6.1 DPO and DRO longitudinal changes for all industries

FIGURE 6.2 All-or-nothing discount term transactions

FIGURE 6.3 Dynamic discount approach transactions

FIGURE 6.4 Dynamic discount annual rate of return

FIGURE 7.1 Linear supply chain

FIGURE 7.2 Additional tiers

FIGURE 7.3 Visibility of customer’s suppliers and supplier’s

customers
FIGURE 7.4 Combined visibility

FIGURE 7.5 Deconstructed back to simple linear chain

FIGURE 7.6 Reflecting magnitude of transactions

FIGURE 7.7 Labelling magnitude of transactions

FIGURE 7.8 Bloomberg focus company

FIGURE 7.9 Bloomberg supplier side

FIGURE 7.10 Bloomberg customer side

FIGURE 7.11 Composite of Bloomberg data

FIGURE 7.12 Potential trading partner strategic considerations

FIGURE 9.1 PA and MPS index and contract price logic

FIGURE 9.2 Aluminium LME cash price with PA and MPS prices
superimposed

FIGURE 9.3 Illustrative speaker component with raw materials and

ILCs

FIGURE 11.1 Evolutionary stages of a business ecosystem,

adapted from Moore (1993)

FIGURE 11.2 Principles for further advancing SCF ecosystem

FIGURE 12.1 Integrated blockchain ecosystem and conventional

ICT-architecture

FIGURE 12.2 Blockchain opportunity for trade finance (World

Economic Forum, 2016; Van Rooyen, 2017)

FIGURE 12.3 Blockchain opportunity for supply chain operations

(World Economic Forum, 2016; Van Rooyen, 2017)
LIST OF TABLE

TABLE 2.1 Working capital illustrated

TABLE 2.2 Cash conversion cycle

TABLE 2.3 Illustrative discount payment terms

TABLE 2.4 Influence of accounts payable on cash position

TABLE 2.5 Risks associated with pushing debt on to suppliers

TABLE 2.6 Example: buyer-led SCF may make extended terms

attractive to suppliers

TABLE 2.7 Benefits for buyers

TABLE 2.8 Benefits for suppliers

TABLE 4.1 List of journals

TABLE 5.1 Relative benefit(s) from paying two debts on various

days of the week

TABLE 6.1 Elements of supply chain finance

TABLE 6.2 Quantifying supply chain finance performance

TABLE 6.3 Technological accounts payable execution benefits

TABLE 6.4 Technological accounts payable execution capabilities

TABLE 7.1 Average DRO and DPO Performance by Industry

TABLE 8.1 Interview highlights

TABLE 8.2 The effect of cyber risk on SCF

TABLE 9.1 Advantages and disadvantages of various price indices,

authors’ own illustration

TABLE 10.1 Total cost of ownership from supplier (hypothetical)

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And yet in sooth sweet Dicke, it may be said,
The king hath folly, their’s vertue in the mayd.
Eust. But knows my friend this portrait, be aduisd?
Sir Bar. Is it not Ida the Countesse of Arains daughters?
Eust. So was I told by Elinor of Carlile,
But tell me louely Bartram, is the maid euil inclind,
Misled, or Concubine vnto the King or any other Lord?
Ba. Shuld I be brief & true, thẽ thus my Dicke,
All Englands grounds yeelds not a blyther Lasse.
Nor Europ can art her for her gifts, 610
Of vertue, honour, beautie, and the rest:
But our fõd king not knowing sin in lust,
Makes loue by endlesse meanes and precious gifts,
And men that see it dare not sayt my friend,
But wee may wish that it were otherwise:
But I rid thee to view the picture still,
For by the persons sights there hangs som ill.
Ba. Oh good sir Bartram, you suspect I loue,
Then were I mad, hee whom I neuer sawe,
But how so ere, I feare not entisings, 620
Desire will giue no place vnto a king:
Ile see her whom the world admires so much,
That I may say with them, there liues none such.
Bar. Be Gad and sal, both see and talke with her,
And when th’ hast done, what ere her beautie be,
Ile wartant thee her vertues may compare,
With the proudest she that waits vpon your Queen.
Eu. My Ladie intreats your Worship in to supper.
Ba. Guid bony Dick, my wife will tel thee more,
Was neuer no man in her booke before: 630
Be Gad shees blyth, faire lewely, bony, &c.
Exeunt.
Enter Bohan and the fairy king after the first act, to II. Chor.
them a rownd of Fairies, or some prittie dance.
Boh. Be Gad gramersis little king for this,
This sport is better in my exile life,
Then euer the deceitfuil werld could yeeld.
Ober. I tell thee Bohan, Oberon is king,
Of quiet, pleasure, profit, and content,
Of wealth, of honor, and of all the world, 640
Tide to no place, yet all are tide to one,
Liue thou in this life, exilde from world and men,
And I will shew thee wonters ere we part,
Boh. Then marke my stay, and the strange doubts,
That follow flatterers, lust and lawlesse will,
And then say I haue reason to forsake theworld,
And all that are within the same.
Gow shrowd vs in our harbor where weele see,
The pride of folly, as it ought to be.
Exeunt. 650

After the first act.

Ober. Here see I good fond actions in thy gyg,
And meanes to paint the worldes in constant waies
But turne thine ene, see which for I can commaund.
Enter two battailes strongly fighting, the one Simi Ranus, the
other, Staurobates, she flies, and her Crowne is taken,
and she hurt.
Boh. What gars this din of mirk and balefull harme,
Where euery weane is all betaint with bloud?
Ober. This shewes thee Bohan what is worldly pompe. 660

Simeranu., the proud Assirrian Queene,

 , p Q ,
When Ninus died, did tene in her warres,
Three millions of footemen to the fight,
Fiue hundreth thousand horse, of armed chars,
A hundreth thousand more yet in her pride
Was hurt and conquered by S. Taurobates.
Then what is pompe?
Bohan. I see thou art thine ene.
Thou bonny King, if Princes fall from high,
My fall is past, vntill I fall to die. 670
Now marke my talke, and prosecute my gyg.
2.
Ober. How shuld these crafts withdraw thee from the world?
But looke my Bohan, pompe allureth.
Enter Cirus king, humbling themselues: himselfe crowned
by
Oliue Pat, at last dying, layde in a marbell tombe with this
inscription
Who so thou bee that passest,
For I know one shall passe, knowe I
I am Cirus of Persia, 680
And I prithee leaue me not thus like a clod of clay
Wherewith my body is couered.
All exeunt.
Enter the king in great pompe, who reads it, & issueth,
crieth vermeum.
Boha. What meaneth this?
Ober. Cirus of Persia,
Mightie in life, within a marbell graue,
Was layde to rot, whom Alexander once
Beheld in tombde, and weeping did confesse 690
Nothing in life could scape from wrethednesse:
Why then boast men?
 Boh. What recke I then of life,
Who makes the graue my tomb, the earth my wife:
But marke mee more.
3.
Boh. I can no more, my patience will not warpe.
To see these flatteries how they scorne and carpe.
Ober. Turne but thy head.
Enter our kings carring Crowns, Ladies presenting odors 700
to Potentates in thrond, who suddainly is slaine
by his seruaunts, and thrust out, and so they eate.
Exeunt.
Sike is the werld, but whilke is he I sawe.
Ober. Sesostris who was conquerour of the werld,
Slaine at the last, and stampt on by his slaues.
Boh. How blest are peur men then that know their graue,
Now marke the sequell of my Gig.
Boh. An he weele meete ends: the mirk and sable night
Doth leaue the pering morne to prie abroade, 710
Thou nill me stay, haile then thou pride of kings,
I ken the world, and wot well worldly things,
Marke thou my gyg, in mirkest termes that telles
The loathe of sinnes, and where corruption dwells
Haile me ne mere with showes of gudlie sights:
My graue is mine, that rids me from dispights.
Accept my gig guid King, and let me rest,
The graue with guid men, is a gay built nest.
Ober. The rising sunne doth call me hence away,
Thankes for thy gyg, I may no longer stay: 720
But if my traine, did wake thee from thy rest,
So shall they sing, thy lullabie to nest.
 Actus Secundus. Schena Prima. II. i.

Enter the Countesse of Arrain, with Ida her daughter

in theyr porch, sitting at worke.
A Song.
Count. Faire Ida, might you chuse the greatest good
Midst all the world, in blessings that abound:
Wherein my daughter shuld your liking be?
Ida. Not in delights, or pompe, or maiestie. 730

Count. And why?

Ida. Since these are meanes to draw the minde
From perfect good, and make true iudgement blind.
Count. Might you haue wealth, and fortunes ritchest store?
Ida. Yet would I (might I chuse) be honest poore.
For she that sits at fortunes feete alowe
Is sure she shall not taste a further woe.
But those that prancke one top of fortunes ball,
Still feare a change: and fearing catch a fall.
Count. Tut foolish maide, each one contemneth need. 740

Ida. Good reasõ why, they know not good indeed.

Count. Many marrie then, on whom distresse doth loure,
Ida. Yes they that vertue deeme an honest dowre.
Madame, by right this world I may compare,
Vnto my worke, wherein with heedfull care,
The heauenly workeman plants with curious hand,
As I with needle drawe each thing one land,
Euen as hee list, some men like to the Rose,
Are fashioned fresh, some in their stalkes do close,
And borne do suddaine die: some are but weeds, 750
And yet from them a secret good proceeds:
I with my needle if I please may blot,
The fairest rose within my cambricke plot
The fairest rose within my cambricke plot,
God with a becke can change each worldly thing,
The poore to earth, the begger to the king.
What then hath man, wherein hee well may boast,
Since by a becke he liues, a louer is lost?
Enter Eustace with letters.
Count. Peace Ida, heere are straungers neare at hand.
Eust. Madame God speed. 760

Count. I thanke you gentle squire.

Eust. The countrie Countesse of Northumberland,
Doth greete you well, and hath requested mee,
To bring these letters to your Ladiship.
He carries the letter.
Count. I thanke her honour, and your selfe my friend.
Shee receiues and peruseth them.
I see she meanes you good braue Gentleman,
Daughter, the Ladie Elinor salutes
Your selfe as well as mee, then for her sake 770
T’were good you entertaind that Courtiour well.
Ida. As much salute as may become my sex,
And hee in vertue can vouchsafe to thinke,
I yeeld him for the courteous Countesse sake.
Good sir sit downe, my mother heere and I,
Count time mispent, an endlesse vanitie.
Eust. Beyond report, the wit, the faire, the shape,
What worke you heere, faire Mistresse may I see it?
Id. Good Sir looke on, how like you this compact?
Eust. Me thinks in this I see true loue in act: 780
The Woodbines with their leaues do sweetly spred,
The Roses blushing prancke them in their red,
No flower but boasts the beauties of the spring,
This bird hath life indeed if it could sing:
What meanes faire Mistres had you in this worke?
Ida. My needle sir.
Eust. In needles then there lurkes,
Some hidden grace I deeme beyond my reach.
Id. Not grace in thẽ good sir, but those that teach.
Eust. Say that your needle now were Cupids sting, 790
But ah her eie must bee no lesse,
In which is heauen and heauenlinesse,
In which the foode of God is shut,
Whose powers the purest mindes do glut.
Ida. What if it were?
Eust. Then see a wondrous thing,
I feare mee you would paint in Teneus heart,
Affection in his power and chiefest parts.
Ida. Good Lord sir no, for hearts but pricked soft,
Are wounded sore, for so I heare it oft. 800
Eust. what recks the second,
Where but your happy eye,
May make him liue, whom Ioue hath iudgd to die.
Ida. Should life & death within this needle lurke,
Ile pricke no hearts, Ile pricke vpon my worke.
Enter Ateuken, with Slipper the Clowne.
Coun. Peace Ida, I perceiue the fox at hand.
Eust. The fox? why fetch your hounds & chace him hence.
Count. Oh sir these great men barke at small offence.
Ateu. Come will it please you to enter gentle sir? 810

Offer to exeunt.
Stay courteous Ladies, fauour me so much,
As to disco se a o d o t o apa t
 As to discourse a word or two apart.
Count. Good sir, my daughter learnes this rule of mee,
To shun resort, and straungers companie:
For some are shifting mates that carrie letters,
Some such as you too good, because our betters.
Slip. Now I pray you sir what a kin are you to a pickrell?
Ateu. Why knaue?
Slip. By my troth sir, because I neuer knew a proper scituation820
fellow of your pitch, fitter to swallow a gudgin.
Ateu. What meanst thou by this?
Slip. Shifting fellow sir, these be thy words, shifting fellow:
This Gentlewoman I feare me, knew your bringing vp.
Ateu. How so?
Slip. Why sir your father was a Miller,
That could shift for a pecke of grist in a bushell,
And you a faire spoken Gentleman, that can get more land by
a lye, then an honest man by his readie mony.
Ateu. Catiue what sayest thou? 830

Slip. I say sir, that if shee call you shifting knaue,

You shall not put her to the proofe.
Ateu. And why?
Slip. Because sir, liuing by your wit as you doo shifting, is
your letters pattents, it were a hard matter for mee to get my
dinner that day, wherein my Maister had not solde a dozen of
deuices, a case of cogges, and a shute of shifts in the morning:
I speak this in your commendation sir, & I pray you so take it.
Ateu. If I liue knaue I will bee reuenged, what Gentleman
would entertaine a rascall, thus to derogate from his honour? 840

Ida. My Lord why are you thus impatient?

Ateu. Not angrie Ida, but I teach this knaue,
How to behaue himselfe among his betters:
Behold faire Countesse to assure your stay,
I heere present the signet of the king,
Who now by mee faire Ida doth salute you:
And since in secret I haue certaine things,
In his behalfe good Madame to impart,
I craue your daughter to discourse a part.
Count. Shee shall in humble dutie bee addrest, 850
To do his Highnesse will in what shee may.
Id. Now gentle sir what would his grace with me?
Ateu. Faire comely Nimph, the beautie of your face,
Sufficient to bewitch the heauenly powers,
Hath wrought so much in him, that now of late
Hee findes himselfe made captiue vnto loue,
And though his power and Maiestie requires,
A straight commaund before an humble sute,
Yet hee his mightinesse doth so abase,
As to intreat your fauour honest maid. 860
Ida. Is hee not married sir vnto our Queen?
Ateu. Hee is.
Ida. And are not they by God accurst,
That seuer them whom hee hath knit in one?
Ateu. They bee: what then? wee seeke not to displace
The Princesse from her seate, but since by loue
The king is made your owne, shee is resolude
In priuate to accept your dalliance,
In spight of warre, watch, or worldly eye.
Ida. Oh how hee talkes as if hee should not die, 870
As if that God in iustice once could winke,
Vpon that fault I am a sham’d to thinke.
Ateu. Tut Mistresse, man at first was born to erre,
Women are all not formed to bee Saints:
f k ll k
Tis impious for to kill our natiue king,
Whom by a little fauour wee may saue.
Ida. Better then liue vnchaste, to liue in graue.
Ateu. Hee shall erect your state & wed you well.
Ida. But can his warrant keep my soule from hell?
Ateu. He will inforce, if you resist his sute. 880

Id. What tho, the world may shame to him account

To bee a king of men and worldly pelfe.
Ateu. Yet hath to power no rule and guide himselfe,
I know you gentle Ladie and the care,
Both of your honour and his graces health,
Makes me confused in this daungerous state.
Ida. So counsell him, but sooth thou not his sinne,
Tis vaine alurement that doth make him loue,
I shame to heare, bee you a shamde to mooue.
Count. I see my daughter growes impatient, 890
I feare me hee pretends some bad intent.
Ateu. Will you dispise the king, & scorne him so?
Ida. In all alleageance I will serue his grace,
But not in lust, oh how I blush to name it?
Ateu. An endlesse worke is this, how should I frame it?
They discourse priuately.
Slip. Oh Mistresse may I turne a word vpon you.
Ateu. Friend what wilt thou?
Slip. Oh what a happie Gentlewoman bee you trulie, the
world reports this of you Mistresse, that a man can no sooner 900
come to your house, but the Butler comes with a blacke Iack
and sayes welcome friend, heeres a cup of the best for you, verilie
Mistresse you are said to haue the best Ale in al Scotland.
Count Sirrha go fetch him drinke how likest thou this?
 Count. Sirrha go fetch him drinke, how likest thou this?
Slip. Like it Mistresse? why this is quincy quarie pepper
de watchet, single goby, of all that euer I tasted: Ile prooue in
this Ale and tost, the compasse of the whole world. First this
is the earth, it ties in the middle a faire browne tost, a goodly
countrie for hungrie teeth to dwell vpon: next this is the sea,
a fair poole for a drie tõgue to fish in: now come I, & seing the 910
world is naught, I diuide it thus, & because the sea cãnot stand
without the earth, as Arist. saith, I put thẽ both into their first
Chaos which is my bellie, and so mistresse you may see your ale
is become a myracle.
Eustace. A merrie mate Madame I promise you.
Count. Why sigh you sirrah?
Slip. Trulie Madam, to think vppon the world, which since
I denoũced, it keepes such a rumbling in my stomack, that vnlesse
your Cooke giue it a counterbuffe with some of your rosted
Capons or beefe, I feare me I shal become a loose body, so 920
daintie I thinke, I shall neither hold fast before nor behinde.
Count. Go take him in and feast this merrie swaine,
Syrrha, my cooke is your phisitian.
He hath a purge for to disiest the world.
Ateu. Will you not, Ida, grant his highnesse this?
Ida. As I haue said, in dutie I am his:
For other lawlesse lusts, that ill beseeme him,
I cannot like, and good I will not deeme him.
Count. Ida come in, and sir if so you please,
Come take a homelie widdowes intertaine. 930
Ida. If he haue no great haste, he may come nye.
If haste, tho he be gone, I will not crie.
Exeunt.
Ateu. I see this labour lost, my hope in vaine,
Yet will I trie an other drift againe.
Yet will I trie an other drift againe.

Enter the Bishop of S. Andrewes, Earle Douglas, II. ii.

Morton, with others, one way, the Queene with
Dwarfes an other way.
B. S. Andr. Oh wrack of Cõmon-weale! Oh wretched state!
Doug. Oh haplesse flocke whereas the guide is blinde? 940

They all are in a muse.

Mort. Oh heedlesse youth, where counsaile is dispis’d.
Dorot. Come prettie knaue, and prank it by my side,
Lets see your best attendaunce out of hande.
Dwarfe. Madame altho my lims are very small,
My heart is good, ile serue you therewithall.
Doro. How if I were assaild, what couldst thou do?
Dwarf. Madame call helpe, and boldly fight it to,
Altho a Bee be but a litle thing:
You know faire Queen, it hath a bitter sting. 950
Dor. How couldst thou do me good were I in greefe?
Dwar. Counsell deare Princes, is a choyce releefe.
Tho Nestor wanted force, great was his wit,
And tho I am but weake, my words are fit.
S. And. Like to a ship vpon the Ocean seas,
Tost in the doubtfull streame without a helme,
Such is a Monarke without good aduice,
I am ore heard, cast raine vpon thy tongue,
Andrewes beware, reproofe will breed a fear.
Mor. Good day my Lord. 960

B. S. And. Lord Morton well ymet:

Whereon deemes Lord Douglas all this while?
Dou. Of that which yours and my poore heart doth breake:
Altho feare shuts our mouths we dare not speake.
Dor. What meane these Princes sadly to consult?
Somewhat I feare, betideth them amisse,
They are so pale in lookes, so vext in minde:
In happie houre the Noble Scottish Peeres
Haue I incountred you, what makes you mourne?
B. S. And. If we with patience may attentiue gaine, 970
Your Grace shall know the cause of all our griefe.
Dor. Speake on good father, come and sit by me:
I know thy care is for the common good.
B. S. And. As fortune mightie Princes reareth some,
To high estate, and place in Common-weale,
So by diuine bequest to them is lent,
A riper iudgement and more searching eye:
Whereby they may discerne the common harme,
For where importunes in the world are most,
Where all our profits rise and still increase, 980
There is our minde, thereon we meditate,
And what we do partake of good aduice,
That we imploy for to concerne the same.)
To this intent these nobles and my selfe,
That are (or should bee) eyes of Common-weale,
Seeing his highnesse reachlesse course of youth
His lawlesse and vnbridled vaine in loue,
His to intentiue trust too flatterers,
His abiect care of councell and his friendes,
Cannot but greeue, and since we cannot drawe 990
His eye or Iudgement to discerne his faults
Since we haue spake and counsaile is not heard,
I for my part, (let others as they list)
Will leaue the Court, and leaue him to his will:
Least with a ruthfull eye I should behold,
His ouerthrow which sore I feare is nye.
Doro. Ah father are you so estranged from loue,
From due alleageance to your Prince and land,
To leaue your King when most he needs your help,
The thriftie husbandmen, are neuer woont 1000
That see their lands vnfruitfull, to forsake them:
But when the mould is barraine and vnapt,
They toyle, they plow, and make the fallow fatte:
The pilot in the dangerous seas is knowne,
In calmer waues the sillie sailor striues,
Are you not members Lords of Common-weale,
And can your head, your deere annointed King,
Default ye Lords, except your selues do faile?
Oh stay your steps, returne and counsaile him.
Doug. Men seek not mosse vpon a rowling stone, 1010
Or water from the siue, or fire from yce:
Or comfort from a rechlesse monarkes hands.
Madame he sets vs light that seru’d in Court,
In place of credit in his fathers dayes,
If we but enter presence of his grace,
Our payment is a frowne, a scoffe, a frumpe,
Whilst flattering Gnato prancks it by his side,
Soothing the carelesse King in his misdeeds,
And if your grace consider your estate,
His life should vrge you too if all be true. 1020
Doug. Why Douglas why?
Doug. As if you haue not heard
His lawlesse loue to Ida growne of late,
His carelesse estimate of your estate.
Doro. Ah Douglas thou misconstrest his intent,
He doth but tempt his wife, he tryees my loue:
This iniurie pertaines to me, not to you.
The King is young, and if he step awrie,
He may amend, and I will loue him still.
Should we disdaine our vines becauso they sprout 1030
Before their time? or young men if they straine
B õd th i h? i th t bl d d
Beyõd their reach? no vines that bloome and spread
Do promise fruites, and young men that are wilde,
In age growe wise, my freendes and Scottish Peeres,
If that an English Princesse may preuaile,
Stay, stay with him, lo how my zealous prayer
Is plead with teares, fie Peeres will you hence?
S. And. Madam tis vertue in your grace to plead,
But we that see his vaine vntoward course,
Cannot but flie the fire before it burne, 1040
And shun the Court before we see his fall.
Doro. Wil you not stay? then Lordings fare you well.
Tho you forsake your King, the heauens I hope
Will fauour him through mine incessant prayer.
Dwar. Content you Madam, thus old Ouid sings.
Tis foolish to bewaile recurelesse things.
Dorothea. Peace Dwarffe, these words my patience moue.
Dwar. All tho you charme my speech, charme not my loue
Exeunt Nano Dorothea.
Enter the King of Scots, Arius, the nobles spying 1050
him, returnes.
K. of S. Douglas how now? why changest thou thy cheere?
Dougl. My priuate troubles are so great my liege,
As I must craue your licence for a while:
For to intend mine owne affaires at home.
Exit.
King. You may depart, but why is Morton sad?
Mor. The like occasion doth import me too,
So I desire your grace to giue me leaue.
K. of S. Well sir you may betake you to your ease,
When such grim syrs are gone, I see no let 1060
To worke my will.
 8. Atten. What like the Eagle then,
With often flight wilt thou thy feathers loose?
O King canst thou indure to see thy Court,
Of finest wits and Iudgements dispossest,
Whilst cloking craft with soothing climbes so high,
As each bewailes ambition is so bad?
Thy father left thee with estate and Crowne,
A learned councell to direct thy Court,
These careleslie O King thou castest off, 1070
To entertaine a traine of Sicophants:
Thou well mai’st see, although thou wilt not see,
That euery eye and eare both sees and heares
The certaine signes of thine inconstinence:
Thou art alyed vnto the English King,
By marriage a happie friend indeed,
If vsed well, if not a mightie foe.
Thinketh your grace he ean indure and brooke,
To haue a partner in his daughters loue?
Thinketh your grace the grudge of priuie wrongs 1080
Will not procure him chaunge his smiles to threats?
Oh be not blinde to good, call home your Lordes,
Displace these flattering Gnatoes, driue them hence:
Loue and with kindnesse take your wedlocke wife
Or else (which God forbid) I feare a change,
Sinne cannot thriue in courts without a plague.
K. of S. Go pack thou too, vnles thou mẽd thy talk:
On paine of death proud Bishop get you gone,
Vnlesse you headlesse mean to hoppe away.
8. Atten. Thou god of heauẽ preuent my countries fall. 1090

Exeunt.
K. of S. These staies and lets to pleasure, plague my thoughts,
Forcing my greeuous wounds a new to bleed:
Bur care that hath transported me so farre,
Faire Ida is disperst in thought of thee:
Whose answere yeeldes me life, or breeds my death:
Yond comes the messenger of weale or woe.
Enter Gnato.
Ateuki. What newes?
Ateu. The adament o King will not be filde, 1100
But by it selfe, and beautie that exceeds,
By some exeeding fauour must be wrought,
Ida is coy as yet, and doth repine,
Obiecting marriage, honour, feare, and death,
Shee’s holy, wise, and too precise for me.
K. of S. Are these thy fruites of wits, thy sight in Art?
Thine eloquence? thy pollicie? thy drift?
To mocke thy Prince, thẽ catiue packe thee hence,
And let me die deuoured in my loue.
Ateu. Good Lord how rage gainsayeth reasons power, 1110
My deare, my gracious, and beloued Prince,
The essence of my sute, my God on earth,
Sit downe and rest your selfe, appease your wrath,
Least with a frowne yee wound me to the death:
Oh that I were included in my graue,
That eyther now to saue my Princes life,
Must counsell crueltie, or loose my King.
K. of S. Why sirrha, is there meanes to mooue her minde?
Ateu. Oh should I not offend my royall liege.
K. of S. Tell all, spare nought, so I may gaine my loue. 1120

Ateu. Alasse my soule why art thou torne in twaine,

For feare thou talke a thing that should displease?
K. of S. Tut, speake what so thou wilt I pardon thee.
Ateu. How kinde a word, how courteous is his grace:
Who would not die to succour such a king?
My liege, this louely mayde of modest minde,
Could well incline to loue but that shee feares
Could well incline to loue, but that shee feares,
Faire Dorotheas power, your grace doth know,
Your wedlocke is a mightie let to loue:
Were Ida sure to bee your wedded wife, 1130
That then the twig would bowe, you might command.
Ladies loue, presents pompe and high estate.
K. of S. Ah Ateukin, how shuld we display this let?
Ateu. Tut mightie Prince, oh that I might bee whist.
K. of S. Why dalliest thou?
Ateu. I will not mooue my Prince,
I will preferre his safetie before my life:
Heare mee ô king, tis Dorotheas death,
Must do you good.
K. of S. What, murther of my Queene? 1140
Yet to enioy my loue, what is my Queene?
Oh but my vowe and promise to my Queene:
I but my hope to gaine a fairer Queene,
With how contrarious thoughts am I with drawne?
Why linger I twixt hope and doubtfull feare:
If Dorothe die, will Ida loue?
Ateu. Shee will my Lord.
K. of S. Then let her die.
Deuise, aduise the meanes,
Al likes me wel that lends me hope in loue. 1150

Ateu. What will your grace consent, then let mee worke:
Theres heere in Court a Frenchman Iaques calde,
A fit performer of our enterprise,
Whom I by gifts and promise will corrupt,
To slaye the Queene, so that your grace will seale
A warrant for the man to saue his life.
K. of S. Nought shall he want, write thou and I wil signe
And gentle Gnato, if my Ida yeelde,
Thon shalt haue what thou wilt Ile giue the straight
Thon shalt haue what thou wilt, Ile giue the straight,
A Barrony, an Earledome for reward. 1160
Ateu. Frolicke young king, the Lasse shall bee your owne,
Ile make her blyth and wanton by my wit.
Exennt.

Enter Bohan with Obiron. III. Chor.

3. Act.
Boh. So Oberon, now it beginnes to worke in kinde,
The auncient Lords by leauing him aliue,
Disliking of his humors and respight,
Lets him run headlong till his flatterers,
Sweeting his thoughts of lucklesse lust, 1170
With vile perswations and alluring words,
Makes him make way by murther to his will,
Iudge fairie king, hast heard a greater ill?
Ober. Nor send more vertue in a countrie mayd,
I tell the Bohan it doth make me merrie,
To thinke the deeds the king meanes to performe.
Boha. To change that humour stand and see the rest,
I trow my sonne Slipper will shewes a iest.
Enter Slipper with a companion, bog, or wench, dauncing a
hornpipe, and daunce out againe. 1180
Boha. Now after this beguiling of our thoughts,
And changing them from sad to better glee,
Lets to our sell, and sit and see thee rest,
For I beleeue this Iig will prooue no iest.
Exeunt.

Chorus Actus 3. Schena Prima. III. i.

 Enter Slipper one way, and S. Bartram another way.
Bar. Ho fellow, stay and let me speake with thee.
Sli. Fellow, frend thou doest disbuse me, I am a Gentlemã.
Bar. A Gentleman, how so?
Slip. Why I rub horses sir. 1190

Bar. And what of that?

Sip. Oh simple witted, marke my reason, they that do good
seruice in the Common-weale are Gentlemen, but such as rub
horses do good seruice in the Common-weale, Ergo tarbox
Maister Courtier, a Horse-keeper is a Gentleman.
Bar. Heere is ouermuch wit in good earnest:
But sirrha where is thy Maister?
Slip. Neither aboue ground nor vnder ground,
Drawing out red into white,
Swallowing that downe without chawing, 1200
That was neuer made without treading.
Bar. Why where is hee then?
Slip. Why in his seller, drinking a cup of neate and briske
claret, in a boule of siluer: Oh sir the wine runnes trillill down
his throat, which cost the poore viutnerd many a stampe before
it was made: but I must hence sir, I haue haste.
Bar. Why whither now I prithee?
Slip. Faith sir, to Sir Siluester a Knight hard by, vppon my
Maisters arrand, whom I must certifie this, that the lease of
Est Spring shall bee confirmed, and therefore must I bid him1210
prouide trash, for my Maister is no friend without mony.
Bar. This is the thing for which I sued so long,
This is the lease which I by Guatoes meanes,
Sought to possesse by pattent from the King:
But hee iniurious man, who liues by crafts,
A d ll ki f f h ill i t
And selles kings fauours for who will giue most,
Hath taken bribes of mee, yet couertly
Will sell away the thing pertaines to mee:
But I haue found a present helpe I hope,
For to preuent his purpose and deceit: 1220
Stay gentle friend.
Slip. A good word, thou haste won me,
This word is like a warme candle to a colde stomacke.
Bar. Sirra wilt thou for mony and reward,
Conuay me certaine letters out of hand,
From out thy maisters pocket.
Slip. Will I sir, why, were it to rob my father, hang
my mother, or any such like trifles, I am at your
commaundement sir, what will you giue me sir?
S. Bar. A hundreth pounds. 1230

Slip. I am your man, giue me earnest, I am dead at a pocket

sir, why I am a lifter maister, by my occupation.
S. Bar. A lifter, what is that?
Slip. Why sir, I can lift a pot as well as any man, and picke a
purse assoone as any theefe in my countrie.
S. Bar. Why fellow hold, heere is earnest,
Ten pound to assure thee, go dispatch,
And bring it me to yonder Tauerne thou seest,
And assure thy selfe thou shalt both haue
Thy skin full of wine, and the rest of thy mony. 1240

Slip. I will sir. Now roome for a Gentleman, my maisters,

who giues mee mony for a faire new Angell, a trimme new
Angell?
Exeunt.

Enter Andrew and Purueyer. III. ii.

 Pur. Sirrha, I must needes haue your maisters horses,
The king cannot bee vnserued.
And. Sirrha you must needs go without them,
Because my Maister must be serued.
Pur. Why I am the kings Purueyer, 1250
And I tell thee I will haue them.
And. I am Ateukins seruant, Signior Andrew,
And I say thou shalt not haue them.
Pur. Heeres my ticket, denie it if thou darst.
And. There is the stable, fetch them out if thou darst.
Pur. Sirrha, sirrha, tame your tongue, least I make you.
And. Sirrha, sirrha, hold your hand, least I bum you.
Pur. I tell thee, thy Maisters geldings are good,
And therefore fit for the king.
An. I tell thee, my Maisters horses haue gald backes, 1260
And therefore cannot fit the King.
Purueyr, Purueyer, puruey thee of more wit, darst thou presume
to wrong my Lord Ateukins, being the chiefest man in
Court.
Pur. The more vnhappie Common-weale,
Where flatterers are chiefe in Court.
And. What sayest thou?
Pur. I say thon art too presumptuous,
And the officers shall schoole thee.
And. A figge for them and thee Purueyer, 1270
They seeke a knot in a ring, that would wrong
My maister or his seruants in this Court.
Enter Iaques.
Pur. The world is at a wise passe,
When Nobilitie is a fraid of a flatterer
When Nobilitie is a fraid of a flatterer.
Iaq. Sirrha, what be you that parley, contra Monsieur my
Lord Ateukin, en bonne foy, prate you against syr Altesse, mee
maka your test to leap from your shoulders, per ma foy cy fere
ie.
And. Oh signior Captaine, you shewe your selfe a forward 1280
and friendly Gentleman in my Maisters behalfe, I will cause
him to thanke you.
Iaq. Poultron speake me one parola against my bon Gentilhome,
I shal estrampe your guttes, and thumpe your backa,
that you no poynt mannage this tenne ours.
Pur. Sirrha come open me the stable,
And let mee haue the horses:
And fellow, for all your French bragges I will doo my dutie.
And. Ile make garters of thy guttes,
Thou villaine if thou enter this office. 1290
Iaq. Mort lieu, take me that cappa
Pour nostre labeur, be gonne villein in the mort.
Pur. What will you resist mee then?
Well the Councell fellow, Shall know of your insolency.
Exit.
Andr. Tell them what thou wilt, and eate that I can best
spare from my backe partes, and get you gone with a vengeance.
Enter Gnato.
Ateu. Andrew. 1300

Andr. Sir.
Ateu. Where be my writings I put in my pocket last night.
Andr. Which sir, your annoations vpon Matchauell?
Ateu. No sir, the letters pattents for east spring.
An. Why sir you talk wonders to me, if you ask that questiõ.
 An. Why sir you talk wonders to me, if you ask that questiõ.
Ateu. Yea sir, and wil work wonders too, which you vnlesse
you finde them out, villaine search me them out and bring thẽ
me, or thou art but dead.
Andr. A terrible word in the latter end of a sessions. Master
were you in your right wits yesternight? 1310
Ateu. Doest thou doubt it?
Andr. I and why not sir, for the greatest Clarkes are not the
wisest, and a foole may dance in a hood, as wel as a wise man in
a bare frock: besides such as giue themselues to Plulantia, as you
do maister, are so cholericke of complection, that that which
they burne in fire ouer night, they seeke for with furie the
next morning. Ah I take care of your worship, this common-weale
should haue a great losse of so good a member as you
are.
Ateu. Thou flatterest me. 1320

Andr. Is it flatterie in me sir to speake you faire?

What is it then in you to dallie with the King?
Ateu. Are you prating knaue,
I will teach you bettet nurture?
Is this the care you haue of my wardrop?
Of my accounts, and matters of trust?
Andr. Why alasse sir, in times past your garments haue
beene so well inhabited, as your Tenants woulde giue no
place to a Moathe to mangle them, but since you
are growne greater and your Garments more fine and gaye, 1330
if your garments are not fit for hospitallitie, blame your pride,
and commend my cleanlinesse: as for yout writings, I am not
for them, nor they for mee.
Ateu. Villaine go, flie, finde them out:
If thou loosest them, thou loosest my credit.
And. Alasse sir? can I loose that you neuer had.
 Ateu. Say you so, then hold feel you that you neuer felt.
Ia. Oh Monsieur, aies patient, pardon your pouure vallet,
Me bee at your commaundement.
Ateu. Signior Iaques wel met, you shall commaund me,1340
Sirra go cause my writings be proclamed in the Market place,
Promise a great reward to them that findes them,
Looke where I supt and euery where.
And. I will sir, now are two knaues well met, and three well
parted, if you conceiue mine enigma, Gentlemen what shal I
bee then, faith a plaine harpe shilling. Exeunt.
Ateu. Sieur Iaques, this our happy meeting hides,
Your friends and me, of care and greeuous toyle,
For I that looke into deserts of men,
And see among the souldiers in this court, 1350
A noble forward minde, and iudge thereof,
Cannot but seeke the meanes to raise them vp:
Who merrit credite in the Common-weale.
To this intent friend Iaque I haue found
A meanes to make you great, and well esteemd,
Both with the king, and with the best in Court:
For I espie in you a valiant minde,
Which makes mee loue, admire, and honour you:
To this intent (if so your trust and faith,
Your secrecie be equall with your force) 1360
I will impart a seruice to thy selfe,
Which if thou doest effect, the King, my selfe,
And what or hee, and I with him can worke,
Shall be imployd in what thou wilt desire.
Iaq. Me sweara by my ten bones, my singniar, to be loyal to
your Lordships intents, affaires, ye my monsignieur, qui non
fera ic pour. Yea pleasure?
By my sworda me be no babie Lords.
Ateu. Then hoping one thy truth, I prithe see,
How kinde Ateukin is to forward mee 1370
How kinde Ateukin is to forward mee, 1370
Hold take this earnest pennie of my loue.
And marke my words, the King by me requires,
No slender seruice Iaques at thy hands.
Thou must by privie practise make a way,
The Queene faire Dorethea as she sleepes:
Or how thou wilt, so she be done to death:
Thou shalt not want promotion heare in Court.
Iaq. Stabba the woman, per ma foy, monsignieur, me thrusta
my weapon into her belle, so me may be gard per le roy.
Mee de your seruice. 1380
But me no be hanged pur my labor.
Ateu. Thou shalt haue warrant Iaques from the King,
None shall outface, gainsay and wrong my friend.
Do not I loue thee Iaques? feare not then,
I tell thee who so toucheth thee in ought,
Shall iniure me, I loue, I tender thee:
Thou art a subiect fit to serue his grace,
Iaques, I had a written warrant once,
But that by great misfortune late is lost,
Come wend we to S. Andrewes, where his grace 1390
Is now in progresse, where he shall assure
Thy safetie, and confirme thee to the act.
Iaques. We will attend your noblenesse.
Exeunt.

Enter Sir Bartram, Dorothea, the Queene, III. iii.

Nano, Lord Ross. Ladies
attendants.
Doro. Thy credite Bartram in the Scottish Court,,
Thy reuerend yeares, the stricknesse of thy vowes,
All these are meanes sufficient to perswade, 1400
But loue the faithfull lincke of loyall hearts,
That hath possession of my constant minde,
That hath possession of my constant minde,
Exiles all dread, subdueth vaine supect,
Me thinks no craft should harbour in that brest,
Where Maiestie and vertue is mstaled:
Me thinke my beautie should not cause my death.
Bar. How gladly soueraigne Princesse would I erre,
And binde my shame to saue your royall life:
Tis Princely in your selfe to thinke the best,
To hope his grace is guiltlesse of this crime, 1410
But if in due preuention you default,
How blinde are you that were forwarnd before.
Doro. Suspition without cause deserueth blame.
Bar. Who sees, and shunne not harmes, deserue the same:
Beholde the tenor of this traiterous plot.
Doro. What should I reade? Perhappes he wrote it not.
Bar. Heere is his warrant vnder seale and signe,
To Iaques borne in France to murther you.
Doro. Ah carelesse King, would God this were not thine
What tho I reade? Ah should I thinke it true? 1420
Rosse. The hand and seale confirmes the deede is his.
Doro. What know I tho, if now he thinketh this?
Nauo. Madame Lucretius faith, that to repent,
Is shildish wisdome to preuent.
Doro. What tho?
Nano. Then cease your teares, that haue dismaid you,
And crosse the foe before hee haue betrayed you.
Bar. What needes this long suggestions in this cause?
When euery circumstance confirmeth trueth:
First let the hidden mercie from aboue, 1430
Confirme your grace, since by a wondrous meanes,
The practise of your daungers came to light:
Next let the tokens of appooued trueth
Next let the tokens of appooued trueth,
Gouerne and stay your thoughts, too much seduc’t,
And marke the sooth, and listen the intent,
Your highnesse knowes, and these my noble Lords,
Can witnesse this, that whilest your husbands sirre
In happie peace possest the Scottish Crowne,
I was his sworne attendant heere in Court,
In daungerous sight I neuer fail’d my Lord. 1440
And since his death, and this your husbands raigne,
No labour, dutie, haue I left vndone,
To testifie my zeale vnto the Crowne:
But now my limmes are weake, mine eyes are dim,
Mine age vnweldie and vnmeete for toyle:
I came to court in hope for seruice past,
To gaine some lease to keepe me beeing olde,
There found I all was vpsie turuy turnd,
My friends displac’ff, the Nobles loth to craue,
Then fought I to the minion of the King, 1450
Auteukin, who allured by a bribe,
Assur’d me of the lease for which I fought:
But see the craft, when he had got the graunt,
He wrought to sell it to Sir Siluester,
In hope of greater earnings from his hands:
In briefe, I learnt his craft, and wrought the meanes,
By one his needie seruants for reward,
To steale from out his pocket all the briefes,
Which hee perform’d, and with reward resignd
Them when I read (now marke the power of God) 1460
I found this warrant seald among the rest,
To kill your grace, whom God long keepe aliue.
Thus in effect, by wonder are you sau’d,
Trifle not then, bnt seeke a speakie flight,
God will conduct your steppes, and shield the right.
Dor. What should I do, ah poore vnhappy Queen?
Borne to indure what fortune can containe,
Ah lasse the deed is too apparant now:
B t h i b t t hid
But oh mine eyes were you as bent to hide,
As my poore heart is forward to forgiue. 1470
Ah cruell king, my loue would thee acquite,
Oh what auailes to be allied and matcht
With high estates that marry but in shewe?
Were I baser borne, my meane estate
Could warrant me from this impendent harme,
But to be great and happie these are twaine.
Ah Rosse what shall I do, how shall I worke?
Rosse. With speedie letters to your father send,
Who will reuenge you, and defend your right.
Dor. As if they kill not me, who with him fight? 1480
As if his brest be toucht, I am not wounded,
As if he waild, my ioyes were not confounded:
We are one heart, tho rent by hate in twaine:
One soule, one essence doth our weale containe:
What then can conquer him that kils not me?
Rosse. If this aduice displease, then Madame flee.
Dor. Where may I wend or trauel without feare?
Na. Where not, in changing this attire you weare?
Dor. What shall I clad me like a Country maide?
Na. The pollicie is base I am affraide. 1490

Dor. Why Nano?

Na. Aske you why? what may a Queene
March foorth in homely weede and be not seene?
The Rose although in thornie shrubs she spread:
Is still the Rose, her beauties waxe not dead.
And noble mindes altho the coate be bare,
Are by their semblance knowne, how great they are
Bar. The Dwarfe saith true.
Dor. What garments likste thou than?
 Na. Such as may make you seeme a proper man. 1500

Dor. He makes me blush and smile, tho I am sad.

Na. The meanest coat for safetie is not bad.
Dor. What shall I iet in breeches like a squire?
Alasse poore dwarfe, thy Mistresle is vnmeete.
Na. Tut, go me thus, your cloake before your face,
Your sword vpreard with queint & comely grace,
If any come and question what you bee,
Say you a man, and call for witnesse mee.
Dor. What should I weare a sword, to what intent?
Na. Madame for shewe, it is an ornament, 1510
If any wrong you, drawe a shining blade
Withdrawes a coward theese that would inuade.
Dor. But if I strike, and hee should strike againe,
What should I do? I feare I should bee slaine.
Nano. No, take it single on your dagger so,
Ile teach you Madame how to ward a blow.
Do. How litle shapes much substance may include?
Sir Bartram, Rosse, yee Ladies and my friends,
Since presence yeelds me death, and absence life,
Hence will I flie disguised like a squire, 1520
As one that seekes to liue in Itish warres,
You gentle Rosse, shal furnish my depart.
Ross. Yea Prince, & die with you with all my hart,
Vouchsafe me then in all extreamest states,
To waight on you and serue you with my best.
Dor. To me pertaines the woe, liue then in rest:
Friends fare you well, keepe secret my depart,
Nano alone shall my attendant bee.
Nan. Then Madame are you mand, I warrant ye,
Giue me a sword, and if there grow debate, 1530
Ile come behinde, and breake your enemies pate.
Ross. How sore wee greeue to part so soone away.
Dor. Greeue not for those that perish if they stay.
Nano. The time in words mispent, is litle woorth,
Madam walke on, and let them bring vs foorth.
Exeunt.

Chorus. IV. Chor.

Ent. Boha. So these sad motions makes the faire sleepe,

And sleep hee shall in quiet and content,
For it would make a marbell melt and weepe 1540
To see these treasons gainst the innocent:
But since shee scapes by flight to saue her life,
The king may chance repent she was his wife:
The rest is ruthfull, yet to beguilde the time,
Tis interlast with merriment and rime.
Exeuut.

Actus Quartus. Schena Prima. IV. i.

After a noyse of hornes and showtings, enter certaine

Huntsmen, if you please, singing one way: another
way Ateukin and Iaques, Gnato. 1550
Ateu. Say Gentlemen, where may wee finde the king?
Hunts. Euen heere at hand on hunting.
And at this houre hee taken hath a stand,
To kill a Deere.
Ateu. A pleasant worke in hand,
Follow your sport, and we will seeke his grace.
Hunts When such him seeke it is a wofull case
 Hunts. When such him seeke, it is a wofull case.

Exeunt Huntsman one way, Ateu. and Iaq. another,

Enter Eustace, Ida, and the Countesse. IV. ii.
Count. Lord Eustace, as your youth & vertuous life, 1560
Deserues a faire, more faire and richer wife,
So since I am a mother, and do wit
What wedlocke is, and that which longs to it,
Before I meane my daughter to bestow,
Twere meete that she and I your state did know.
Eust. Madame if I consider Idas woorth,
I know my portions merrit none so faire,
And yet I hold in farme and yearly rent,
A thousand pound, which may her state content.
Count. But what estate my Lord shall she possesse? 1570

Eust. All that is mine, graue Countesse & no lesse.

But Ida will you loue?
Ida. I cannot hate.
Eust. But will you wedde?
Ida. Tis Greeke to mee my Lord,
Ile wish you well, and thereon take my word.
Eus.. Shall I some signe of fauour then receiue?
Ida. I, if her Ladiship will giue me leaue.
Count. Do what thou wilt.
Ida. Then noble English Peere, 1580
Accept this ring, wherein my heart is set,
A constant heart, with burning flames befret:
But vnder written this: O morte dura:
Heereon when so you looke with eyes Pura,
The maide you fancie most will fauour you.
Eust Ile trie this heart in hope to finde it true
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