Act the Second Prologue
Enter Belinus, Albinius, Fabius and Alphonsus with Soldiers; alarum, and then enter Venus.
Venus. Thus from the pit of pilgrim’s poverty
Alphonsus ‘gins by step and step to climb
Unto the top of friendly Fortune’s wheel:
From banish’d state, as you have plainly seen,
He is transform’d into a soldier’s life,
And marcheth in the ensign of the king
Of worthy Naples, which Belinus hight;
Not for because that he doth love him so,
But that he may revenge him on his foe.
Now on the top of lusty barbèd steed
He mounted is, in glittering armour clad,
Seeking about the troops of Arragon,
For to encounter with his traitorous niece.39
How he doth speed, and what doth him befall,
Mark this our act, for it doth show it all.
[Exeunt.