What ransom must I pay before I pass ?

For, I perceive, I am thy prisoner.

Suff. How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit, Before thou make a trial of her love?

[Aside. Mar. Why speak'st thou not? What ransom must I pay? Suff. She's beautiful; and therefore to be wooed: She is a woman; therefore to be won.

[Aside.

Mar. Wilt thou accept of ransom, yea, or no? Suff. Fond man! remember, that thou hast a wife: Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?

[Aside.

Mar. I were best leave him, for he will not hear.
Suff. There all is marred; there lies a cooling card.
Mar. He talks at random; sure, the man is mad.
Suff. And yet a dispensation may be had.
Mar. And yet I would that you would answer me.
Suff. I'll win this lady Margaret. For whom?
Why, for my king: Tush! that's a wooden thing.
Mar. He talks of wood. It is some carpenter.
Suff. Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,
And peace established between these realms.
But there remains a scruple in that too;
For though her father be the king of Naples,
Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,
And our nobility will scorn the match.

Mar. Hear ye, captain? Are you not at leis side.

Suff. It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much: Henry is youthful, and will quickly yield.—

Madam, I have a secret to reveal.

Mar. What though I be enthralled? He seems a knight,

And will not any way dishonor me.

[Aside.

Suff. Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.

Mar. Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;

And then I need not crave his courtesy.

[Aside.

Suff. Sweet madam, give me hearing in a cause

Mar. Tush; women have been captivate ere now.

[Aside.

Suff. Lady, wherefore talk you so?

Mar. I cry you mercy; 'tis but quid for quo.

Suff. Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose

Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?
Mar. To be a queen in bondage, is more vile,
Than is a slave in base servility;

For princes should be free.

And so shall you,

Suff.
If happy England's royal king be free.

Mar. Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?