I have committed, let it not fall
Upon this understanding child of mine,
She has not broke your Laws; but how can I,
Look to be heard of gods, that must be just,
Praying upon the ground I hold by wrong?

[ _Enter _Dion.

_Di_. Sir, I have asked, and her women swear she is within,
but they I think are bawds; I told 'em I must speak
with her: they laught, and said their Lady lay speechless.
I said, my business was important; they said their Lady
was about it: I grew hot, and cryed my business was a
matter that concern'd life and death; they answered, so
was sleeping, at which their Lady was; I urg'd again, she
had scarce time to be so since last I saw her; they smil'd
again, and seem'd to instruct me, that sleeping was
nothing but lying down and winking: Answers more direct
I could not get: in short Sir, I think she is not there.

_King_. 'Tis then no time to dally: you o'th' Guard,
Wait at the back door of the Princes lodging,
And see that none pass thence upon your lives.
Knock Gentlemen: knock loud: louder yet:
What, has their pleasure taken off their hearing?
I'le break your meditations: knock again:
Not yet? I do not think he sleeps, having this
Larum by him; once more, _Pharamond_, Prince.

[Pharamond _above_.