And at her heels a huge infectious troop Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Adr. Then let your fervants bring my husband 'forth. Abb. Neither; he took this place for fanctuary, Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, And therefore let me have him home with me, It is a branch and parcel of mine oath, Therefore depart, and leave him here with me. Abb. Be quiet and depart, thou shalt not have him. Luc. Complain unto the Duke of this indignity. [Exit Abbefs Adr. Come, go; I will fall proftrate at his feet, And never rise until my tears and prayers Mer. To fee a reverend Syracufan merchant, Against the laws and ftatutes of this town, Ang. See where they come; we will behold his death. Luc, Kneel to the Duke before he pass the Abbey. Enter the Duke, and ÆGEON bare-beaded; with the Duke. Yet once again proclaim it publicly, Adr. Juftice, most facred Duke, against the Abbess. (Whom I made Lord of me and all I had, (21) The place of death and forry execution ] i. e. dimal, lamentable, to be grieved at. In the like acceptations our Poet employs it again, where Macbeth, after the murder of Duncan, is looking on his own bloody hands: This is a forry fight. Doing difpleasure to the citizens, By ruthing in their houses; bearing thence He broke from thofe that had the guard of him; Chaced us away; 'till, raifing of more aid, [wars, Nor fend him forth, that we may bear him hence... Enter a Meffenger. Me O mistress, mistress, shift and fave yourself; My master and his man are both broke loose, Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor, Whofe beard they have finged off with brands of And ever as it blazed, they threw on him [fire; Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair; My maiter preaches patience to him, and the while His man with fciffars nicks him like a fool: And, fure, unless you fend fome prefent help, Adr. Peace, fool, thy master and his man are here, And that is falfe thou doft report to us. Meff. Miftrefs, upon my life I tell you true; I have not breathed almoft fince I did fee it. He cries for you, and vows if he can take you, To fcorch your face, and to disfigure you. [Gry within. Hark, hark, I hear him, Miftrefs; fly, be gone. Duke. Come, ftand by me, fear nothing: guard with halberds. Adr. Ay me, it is my husband; witnefs you, Even now we houfed him in the Abbey here, t E. Ant. Justice, moft gracious Duke, oh, grant me justice, Even for the service that long fince I did thee, She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife, Even in the ftrength and height of injury : That the this day hath fhameless thrown on me. Whilst the with harlots feafted in my houfe. [fo? Lac. Ne'er may I look on day, nor fleep on night, E. Ant. My Liege, I am advised what I fay, Neither difturbed with the effect of wine, Nor, heady rath, provoked with raging ire; Albeit my wrongs might make one-wiler mad. This woman locked me out this day from dinner; That goldfmith there, were he not packed with her, Could witness it; for he was with me then, Who parted with me to go fetch a chain, Promifing to bring it to the Porcupine, Where Balthazar and I did dine together. Our dinner done, and he not coming thither, I went to feek him; in the street I met him, And in his company that gentleman: There did this perjured goldfmith fwear me down, That I this day from him received the chain; Which, God he knows, I faw not; for the which, He did arreft me with an officer. I did obey, and fent my peafant home For certain ducats; he with none returned. Το go in perfon with me to my houfe. By the way we met my wife, her fifter, and: A rabble more of vile confederates; They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced vil-- A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller, VOL. IV. Ef [lain, |