Gurth. I trust the kingly touch that cures the evil

May serve to charm the tiger out of him. Leofwin. He hath as much of cat as tiger in him.

Our Tostig loves the hand and not the man. Harold. Nay! Better die than lie !

Enter KING, QUEEN, and TOSTIG. Edward. In heaven signs! Signs upon earth! signs everywhere! your priests

Gross, worldly, simoniacal, unlearn'd! They scarce can read their Psalter; and your churches

Uncouth, unhandsome, while in Norman

Leave me alone, brother, with my Northumbria;

She is my mistress, let me look to her! The King hath made me earl; make me not fool!

Nor make the King a fool, who made me earl!

Harold. No, Tostig-lest I make myself a fool

Who made the King who made thee make thee earl.

Tostig. Why chafe me then? Thou knowest I soon go wild.

Gurth. Come, come! as yet thou art not gone so wild

But thou canst hear the best and wisest of

Harold. I would it went as well as with mine earldom,

Leofwin's and Gurth's.

Tostig.
Ye govern milder men.
Gurth. We have made them milder by
just government.

Tostig. Ay, ever give yourselves your
own good word.

Leofwin. An honest gift, by all the Saints, if giver

And taker be but honest! but they bribe Each other, and so often, an honest world Will not believe them.

In the full vessel running out at top To swamp the house.

Leofwin.

Nor thou be a wild thing Out of the waste, to turn and bite the hand Would help thee from the trap.

Tostig.
Thou playest in tune.
Leofwin. To the deaf adder thee, that

wilt not dance

However wisely charm'd.