ness Car. Oh, now thou pleasest me; weep still, As if thou sawest me dead! with such a flux To place them on his hearse. Now, if ye please, Thy honoured and most sacred memory! Drus. Thou hast done honestly, good Cara- And when thou diest, a thousand virtuous Romans I could have wept this hour yet. Car. Come, take cheer, And raise thy spirit, child; if but this day Thou canst bear out thy faintness, the night co ming, Fill fashion our escape. Hengo. Pray fear not me; Indeed I am very hearty. Car. Be so still; His mischiefs lessen, that controuls his ill. SCENE H. Enter PETILLIUS. [Exeunt. Pet. What do I ail, in the name of heaven? I did but see her | | Pet. Whoa, here's a stir now! Sing a song of By heaven, if-prithee-pox on't, Junius! Pet. And what's your reason? Jun. What's that to you? Pet. And I must whistle. And see her die; she stinks by this time strongly, | Oh, I hear them coming. Abominably stinks. She was a woman, A thing I never cared for; but to die so, All we could do, or durst do: threatened us Pet. I have a little business. Jun. Thou shalt not go, believe it: What! a gentleman Of thy sweet conversation? Pet. Captain Junius, Sweet captain, let me go with all celerity! Jun. By no means, Petillius; Pet. Tom Puppy, Leave this way to abuse me: I have found you, But, for your mother's sake, I will forgive you. Your subtle understanding may discover, As you think, some trim toy to make you merry, Enter DECIUS, DEMETRIUS, and Curius. Dem. How does the brave Petillius? Jun. Monstrous merry. We two were talking what a kind of thing I was, when I was in love; what a strange mon ster For little boys and girls to wonder at; How like a fool I looked! Dec. So they do all, Like great dull slavering fools. Jun. Petillius saw too. Pet. No more of this; it is scurvy; peace! Indeed how beastly, all I did became me! Pet. I am angry. Jun. Surely His wise self would hang his beastly self; Dec. He is bound to do it; for he knows the follies, The poverties, and baseness, that belong to it; He has read upon the reformations long. Pet. He has so. Jun. 'Tis true, and he must do it: Nor is it What victuals has he? Suet. If thou be'st guilty, and yet thy good All the woods Some sullen plague, thou hatest most, light upon Are double lined with soldiers; no way left us thee! The regiment return on Junius; He well deserves it. Pet. So ! Suet. Draw out three companies, (Yours, Decius, Junius, and thou, Petillius) And make up instantly to Caratach; He's in the wood before ye: We shall follow, After due ceremony done to the dead, The noble dead. Come, let's go burn the body. [Ereant all but Petillius. Pet. The regiment given from me? disgraced openly ? In love too with a trifle to abuse me? A merry world, a fine world! served seven years Your honourable brain-pan full of crotchets, Thou art the arrantest rascal! Trust thy wisdom Dig for a groat a-day, or serve a swine-herd, SCENE III. To make a noble escape. I'll sit down by thee, And, when thou wakest, either get meat to save Jun. Most sure I told you truth then. Pet. And that your love [Erit. | Should not deny me any honest thing. Enter MACER and JUDAS, with meat and a bottle. Macer. Hang it on the side of the rock, as though the Britons Stole hither to relieve him: Who first ventures To fetch it off, is ours. I cannot see him. Jun. And then I'll kill you, Because you shall die miserable. Know, sir,' And hasted by Suetonius! Go, says he, posed, A deed to take off all faults, of all natures: Pet. Stay! Jun. No, I'll kill you. He knew thee absolute, and full in soldier, Daring beyond all dangers, found thee out According to the boldness of thy spirit, A subject, such a subject————— Come, if you'll pray, dispatch it. Pet. Is there no way? Jun. Not any way to live. Redeem myself at any price: Good Junius, Jun. You will seek then To out-do every man. Pet. Believe it, Junius, You shall go stroke by stroke with me. Pet. Dare you trust me? Virtne guide [Exeunt. Hengo. Methinks, sir, They ring a strange sad knell, a preparation Come, tie me in your belt, and let me down. Hengo. No, as you love me, uncle! I will not eat it, if I do not fetch it; The danger only I desire; pray tie me. Car. I will, and all my care hang over thee! My valiant child! Hengo. Let me down apace, uncle, And you shall see how like a daw I'll whip it Car. Go, in the name of Heaven, boy! Car. I see you, [Car. kills Judas with a stone. Hengo. Oh, uncle, uncle, Oh, how it pricks me-am I preserved for this?— Car. Coward, rascal coward! Dogs eat thy flesh! Hengo. Oh, I bleed hard; I faint too; out How sick I am! The lean rogue, uncle! I have laid him sure enough. Hengo. Have you knocked his brains out? Hengo. Hold my sides hard; stop, stop; oh, Must we part thus? Still I grow sicker, uncle. I should have lived to have met these bloody At my sword's point, to have revenged my father, Car. Thou shalt live still, I hope, boy. Shall I draw it? Hengo. You draw away my soul, then; I A little longer, (spare me, Heavens!) but only Car. Oh, my chicken, My dear boy, what shall I lose? Hengo. Why, a child, VOL. I. [Dies. Car. Farewell the hopes of Britain! Thou royal graft, farewell for ever! Time and death, You have done your worst. Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph: Look, How lovely yet thy ruins shew, how sweetly Enter PETILLIUS and JUNIUS on the rock. Jun. Not yet, sir. Car. Breathe ye, ye poor Romans, Enter SUETONIUS, and all the Roman captains. I'll use thee like thyself, thou valiant Briton. Thou filler of the world with fame and glory! thy prisoners. Suet. Excellent Briton, do me but that honour, That more to me than conquest, that true happi ness, To be my friend! Car. Öh, Romans, see what here is! Suet. For fame's sake, for thy sword's sake, Car. I do believe. Ye've made me a brave foe; Make me a noble friend, and from your goodness, That must have died however; had this escaped me, Give this boy honourable earth to lie in! P |