Hengo. Thou darest as well skin of man? The youngest daughter to the queen entreats you Judas. I rest her humble servant; Commend me to thy lady. Keep your files, boys. Serv. I must instruct you further. Judas. Keep your files there! Be damned! thou knock his brains out? thou Order, sweet friends; faces about now. Uncle, I will not hear this. Judas. Tie up your whelp. a sword Hengo. Thou kill my uncle? 'Would I had but Fairly, good soldiers, fairly! march now; close, For thy sake, thou dried dog! Car. What a mettle This little vermin carries! Hengo. Kill mine uncle? Car. He shall not, child. Hengo. He cannot; he is a rogue, An only eating rogue! kill my sweet uncle? Judas. By this wine, which I Will drink to captain Junius, who loves The queen's most excellent majesty's little daugh ter Most sweetly, and most fearfully, I'll do it. Hengo. Uncle, I'll kill him with a great pin. Car. No more, boy! I'll pledge thy captain. To ye all, good fellows! 2 Daugh. In love with me? that love shall cost your lives all. Come, sister, and advise me; I have here Car. Let's see you sweat, 1 Sold. Hark you, Judas; If he should hang us after all this? I'll hang like a gentleman, and a Roman. They have enough. Judas. Captain, we think you heartily For your good cheer; and if we meet tomorrow, One of us pays for it. Car. Get them guides; their wine Has over-mastered them. Enter second Daughter and a Servant. 2 Daugh. That hungry fellow With the red beard there, give it him, and this, To see it well delivered. Car. Farewell, knaves! Speak nobly of us; keep your words to-morrow, boys! SCENE IV. [Exeunt. Suet. No, by no means; he's a torrent We cannot easily stem. Pet. I think, a traitor. Suct. No ill words! let his own shame first re vile him. That wine I have, see it, Demetrius, Distributed amongst the soldiers, To make them high and lusty; when that's done, Are your starved people yet come home? Suet. Keep them in more obedience: This is To chide, I could be angry else, and say more to you; But come, let's order all. Whose sword is sharpest, Pet. We shall be holy all, then. [Exeunt. Manet DECIUS. Enter JUDAS and his company, Judas. Captain, captain, I've brought them off again; The drunkennest slaves! Dec. Pox confound your rogueships! That are the ringleader to these devices, gine Judas. I think will do all; I cannot tell; I think so. Dec. How to Junius? I'll more enquire of this. You'll fight now! Take heed of promise, captain! Dec. Away, and rank then. Judas. But, hark you, captain; there is wine distributing; I would fain know what share I have. You have too much. Judas. Captain, no wine, no fighting: If you'll be ruled now, and do well- Dec. You shall have wine, or any thing. Go file; I'll see you have your share. Drag out your dor mice, And stow them somewhere, where they may sleep handsomely; They'll hear a hunts-up shortly. Judas. Now I love thee: Dec. Deserve them not then. Judas. Arm, arm, bullies ! All's right again and straight; and, which is more. More wine, more wine, Awake, ye men of Memphis! Be sober and discreet; we've much to do, boys, [Exeunt, SCENE I. Enter a Messenger. ACT III. 2 Daugh. See, Heaven, And all you powers that guide us, see and shame, Mess. Prepare there for the sacrifice! the Since 'tis no light oblation, that you look for, queen comes. Music. Enter in solemnity the Druids singing, Hear us, ye great revengers! and this day Double the sad remembrance of our wrongs Rise from the dust, ye relicks of the dead, Nen. Thou great Tiranes, whom our sacred Armed with dreadful thunder, place on high A fear fit for confusion; blast their spirits, Strike as thou strikest a proud tree; shake their bodies, Make their strengths totter, and their topless for No incense-offering, will I hang mine eyes; And all her miseries; yet see, and save us [A smoke from the altar. Bond. The fire takes. But no flame rises. Cease your fretful prayers Give us this day good hearts, good enemies, flight Can claim no share in; steel us both with angers Thy little Britain, but as great in fortune, Reward with honour; who despair makes fly, Bond. It flames out. [A flame rises. [Music. [Song Car. He has given us leave to fight yet; we The rest hangs on our resolutions: Bond. I would know further, cousin. Our valours are our best gods. Chear the sol- Cur. [reading.] "Health to thy heart, my honoured Junius, All thy love requited! I am thine, Both of myself and fortune this blessed day For I beheld your danger like a lover, Cur. This letter carries much belief, and most objections Answered, we must have doubted. Dec. Is that fellow Come to you for a guide yet? Jun. Yes. Dec. And examined? He vows he knows no more than this truth, Dec. Strange!' Cur. If she mean what she writes, as it may be probable, Twill be the happiest vantage we can lean to. Jun. I'll pawn my soul she means truth. Dec. Think an hour more; Then if your confidence grow stronger on you, We'll set in with you. Jun. Nobly done! I thank ye. Ye know the time. Cur. We will be either ready To give you present counsel, or join with you. Enter SUETONIUS, PETILLIUS, DEMETRIUS, and MACER. Jun. No more, as ye are gentlemen. neral! The ge Jun. All our troops attend, sir. Suet. I am glad to hear you say so, Junius; I hope you are dispossessed. Jun. I hope so too, sir. Suet. Continue so. And, gentlemen, to you To bid you fight is needless; ye are Romans; Tie never-dying time and fortune constant. The gods of Rome fight for ye; loud Fame calls ye, Pitched on the topless Apennine, where the snow dwells, And blows to all the under-world, all nations, But eternal death and sleep is, informs again mans, Heirs to their endless valours; fight and conquer' Dec. Dem. It is done. Pet. That man, that loves not this day, Jun. Far more than that; he has felt tortures, And hugs not in his arms the noble danger, yet VOL. I. May he die fameless and forgot! N Car. Very likely; He shews no less than general. See how bravely We shall have bloody crowns this day, I see by it. [March. No place but lined alike, sure from oppression! They will not change this figure; we must charge them, And charge them home at both ends, van and rear; [Drums in another place afar off. They never totter else. I hear our music, And must attend it: Hold, good sword, but this day, And bite hard, where I hound thee! and here after Cur. I think it is true. Jun. Alas, if it were a question, If any doubt or hazard fell into it, Do ye think mine own discretion so self-blind, My care of ye so naked, to run headlong? Dec. Let us take Petillius with us! Jun. By no means; He is never wise but to himself, nor courteous, But where the end is his own: we are strong enough, If not too many. Behind yonder hill, Cur. I would venture. Drus. The dust Hides them; we cannot see what follows. Gone, swallowed, Drusius; this eternal sun Drus. Oh, turn this way, And see a model of the field! some forty, Pen. Well fought, bravely followed! They seem to carry it. Now they charge all; [Loud shouts. Close, close, I say! they follow it. Ye gods, Can there be more in men? more daring spirits? Still they make good their fortunes. Now they are gone too, For ever gone! see, Drusius, at their backs A fearful ambush rises. Farewell, valours, |