[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!
Fern. No, Selim, do not fly :

See his end first, and fly then if thou canst.
Bara. O, help me, Selim! help me, Christians!
Governor, why stand you all so pitiless?

Fern. Should I in pity of thy plaints or thee,
Accursed Barabas, base Jew, relent?
No, thus I'll see thy treachery repaid,
But wish thou hadst behav'd thee otherwise.
Bara. You will not help me, then?
Fern. No, villain, no.

Bara. And, villains, know you cannot help me

now.

Then, Barabas, breathe forth thy latest fate,
And in the fury of thy torments strive
To end thy life with resolution.-
Know, governor, 'twas I that slew thy son,—

I fram'd the challenge that did make them meet:

Know, Calymath, I aim'd thy overthrow:
And, had I but escap'd this stratagem,

I would have brought confusion on you all,
Damn'd Christian ‡ dogs, and Turkish infidels!
But now begins the extremity of heat

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;
Thus he determin'd to have handled thee,
But I have rather chose to save thy life.

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:
Besides, if we should let thee go, all's one,
For with thy galleys couldst thou not get hence,
Without fresh men to rig and furnish them.
Caly. Tush, governor, take thou no care for that;
My men are all aboard,

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,
By treason hath deliver'd thee to us :
Know, therefore, till thy father hath made good
The ruins done to Malta and to us,
Thou canst not part; for Malta shall be freed,
Or Selim ne'er return to Ottoman.

Caly. Nay, rather, Christians, let me go to
Turkey,

In person there to mediate‡ your peace:
To keep me here will naught advantage you.

Fern. Content thee, Calymath, here thou must