[A charge sounded within: FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit. Enter Knights and MARTIN DEL Bosco.† Caly. How now! what means this? Bara. Help, help me, Christians, help! Fern. See, Calymath! this was devis'd for thee. Caly. Treason, treason! bassoes, fly! See his end first, and fly then if thou canst. Fern. Should I in pity of thy plaints or thee, Bara. And, villains, know you cannot help me now. Then, Barabas, breathe forth thy latest fate, I fram'd the challenge that did make them meet: Know, Calymath, I aim'd thy overthrow: I would have brought confusion on you all, ascend] Old ed. "attend." A charge sounded within: FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit. Enter Knights and MARTIN DEL Bosco] Old ed. has merely "A charge, the cable cut, A Caldron discouered." Christian] Old ed. "Christians." To pinch me with intolerable pangs : Die, life! fly, soul! tongue, curse thy fill, and die! [Dies. Caly. Tell me, you Christians, what doth this portend? Fern. This train he laid to have entrapp'd thy life; Now, Selim, note the unhallow'd deeds of Jews; Caly. Was this the banquet he prepar'd for us? Let's hence, lest further mischief be pretended.+ Fern. Nay, Selim, stay; for, since we have thee here, We will not let thee part so suddenly: And do attend my coming there by this. Fern. Why, heard'st thou not the trumpet sound a charge? Caly. Yes, what of that? Fern. Why, then the house was fir'd, Blown up, and all thy soldiers massacred. Caly. O, monstrous treason! Fern. A Jew's courtesy; For he that did by treason work our fall, Caly. Nay, rather, Christians, let me go to In person there to mediate‡ your peace: Fern. Content thee, Calymath, here thou must The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer: And also the life and death of Peirs Gaueston, the great Barle of Cornewall, and mighty favorite of king Ecard the second, as it was publiquely acted by the right honorable the Earle of Pembrooke kis seruauntes. Written by Chri. Marlow Gent. Imprinted at London by Richard Bradocke, for William Jones, dwelling neere Holbourne conduit, at the signe of the Gunne, 1598. 4to.. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer. And also the life and death of Peirs Gaueston, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty fauorite of King Blucard the second, as it was publiquely acted by the right honorable the Earle of Pembrooke his seruants. Written by Christopher Marlow Gent. Printed at London for Roger Barnes, and are to be sould at his shop in Chauncerie Lane ouer against the Rolles, 1612. 4to. The troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the second, King of England: with the Tragicall fall of proud Mortimer. And also the life and death of Peirs Gauestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty Fauorite of King Edward the second. As it was publikely Acted by the late Queenes Maiesties Seruants at the Red Bull in S. Johns streete. Written by Christopher Marlow Gent. London, Printed for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Lame hospitall Gate, neere Smithfield, 1622. 4to. |