Then hie thee Manvile to forestall such foes.

[Exit Manvile.]

MOUNTNEY.
What now, Lord Valingford, are you behind?
The king had chosen you to go with him.

VALINGFORD.
So chose he you, therefore I marvel much
That both of us should linger in this sort.
What may the king imagine of our stay?

MOUNTNEY.
The king may justly think we are to blame:
But I imagined I might well be spared,
And that no other man had borne my mind.

VALINGFORD.
The like did I: in friendship then resolve
What is the cause of your unlookt for stay?

MOUNTNEY.
Lord Valingford, I tell thee as a friend,
Love is the cause why I have stayed behind.

VALINGFORD.
Love, my Lord? of whom?

MOUNTNEY.