Bes. Farewell, sir, farewell! Commend me to the gentlewoman, I pray.

[Exit Lygones.

1 Sw. How now, captain? bear up, man.

Bes. Gentlemen o’ th’ sword, your hands once more; I have been kick’d again; but the foolish fellow is penitent, has ask’d me mercy, and my honour’s safe.

2 Sw. We knew that, or the foolish fellow had better have kick’d his grandsire.

Bes. Confirm, confirm, I pray.

1 Sw. There be our hands again! Now let him come, and say he was not sorry, and he sleeps for it.

Bes. Alas! good ignorant old man, let him go, let him go; these courses will undo him.

[Exeunt.

SCENE II.—The Prison.

Enter LYGONES and BACURIUS.

Bac. My lord, your authority is good, and I am glad it is so; for my consent would never hinder you from seeing your own king: I am a minister, but not a governor of this state. Yonder is your king; I’ll leave you.

[Exit.

Enter TIGRANES and SPACONIA.

Lyg. There he is,
Indeed, and with him my disloyal child.

Tigr. I do perceive my fault so much, that yet,
Methinks, thou shouldst not have forgiven me.

Lyg. Health to your majesty!

Tigr. What, good Lygones! welcome!
What business brought thee hither?

Lyg. Several businesses:

[Gives a paper.

Tigr. There is no alteration happen’d since
I came thence?

Lyg. None, sir; all is as it was.

Tigr. And all our friends are well?

Lyg. All very well.

Spa. Though I have done nothing but what was good,
I dare not see my father: It was fault
Enough not to acquaint him with that good.

Lyg. Madam, I should have seen you.