The Tragedy
18801705Was it more pretious to me then it is now:
18811706Thinke you, but that I know our
state
secure,
18821707I would be
so triumphant as I am?
18831708Stan. The Lords at Pomfret when they rode from Lon
-(don, 18841709Were iocund, and
suppo
sde their
states was
sure,
18851710And they indeed had no cau
se to mi
stru
st:
18861711But yet you
see how
soone the day ouerca
st,
18871712This
sodaine
scab of rancour I mi
sdoubt,
18881713Pray God, I
say, I proue a needele
sse coward:
18891714But come my Lo:
shall we to the tower?
18901715Hast. I go: but
stay, heare you not the newes,
18921716This day tho
se men you talkt of, are beheaded.
18931717Sta. They for their truth might better weare their heads,
18941718Then
some that haue accu
sde them weare their hats:
18951719But come my Lo: let vs away.
Enter Hastin. a Purssuant. 18971720Hast. Go you before, Ile follow pre
sently.
18991721Hast. Well met Ha
stings, how goes the world with thee?
19001722Pur. The better that it plea
se your Lo: to aske.
19011723Hast. I tell thee fellow tis better with me now.
19021724Then when I met thee la
st where now
we meete:
19031725Then was I going pri
soner to the tower,
19041726By the
sugge
stion of the Queenes allies:
19051727But now I tell thee (keepe it to thy
selfe.)
19061728This day tho
se enemies are put to death,
19071729And I in better
state then euer I was.
19081730Pur. God hold it to your honors good content.
19091731Hast. Gramercy Ha
stings hold
spend thou that.
He giues ( him his purse. 19151733Hast. What Sir Iohn, you are wel met,
( Enter a priest. 19161734I am beholding to you for your la
st daies exerci
se:
19171735Come the next
sabaoth and I will content you.
He whis-( pers in his eare. 19201737Buc. How now Lo: Chamberlaine, what talking with a
(priest, 19211738Your friends at Pomfret they doe need the prie
st 19221739Your honour hath no
shriuing worke in hand.
19231740Hast. Good faith and when I met this holy man,
19241741Tho
se men you talke of came into my minde:
19251742What, go you to the tower my Lord?
Buck.