Act 5 — SCENE II.—The Court before the Council-hall.
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Grillon, Larchant, Soldiers placed, People crowding
Gril. Are your guards doubled, captain?
Larch. Sir, they are.
Gril. When the Guise comes, remember your petition.— Make way there for his eminence; give back.— Your eminence comes late.
Enter two Cardinals, Counsellors, the Cardinal of Guise, Arch-bishop of Lyons, last the Guise.
Gui. Well, colonel, are we friends?
Gril. 'Faith, I think not.
117 Gui. Give me your hand.
Gril. No, for that gives a heart.
Gui. Yet we shall clasp in heaven.
Gril. By heaven, we shall not, Unless it be with gripes.
Gui. True Grillon still.
Larch. My lord.
Gui. Ha! captain, you are well attended: If I mistake not, sir, your number's doubled.
Larch. All these have served against the heretics; And therefore beg your grace you would remember Their wounds and lost arrears[21].
Gui. It shall be done.— Again, my heart! there is a weight upon thee, But I will sigh it off.—Captain, farewell. [Exeunt Cardinal, Guise, &c.
Gril. Shut the hall-door, and bar the castle-gates: March, march there closer yet, captain, to the door.[Exeunt.