21011895Buck. Harke, I heare a drumme.

21041896Glo. Looke backe, defend thee, here are enemies.

21051897Buc. God and our innocence defend vs. Enter Catesby with Hast. head.

2105.11898Glo. O, O, be quiet, it is Catesby.

21081899Cat. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,

21091900The daungerous and vnsuspected Hastings.

21101901Glo. So deare I lou'd the man, that I must weepe:

21111902I tooke him for the plainest harmelesse man,

21121903That breathed vpon this earth a christian,

2112.11904Looke ye my Lo: Maior.

21131905Made him my booke, wherein my soule recorded,

21141906The history of all her secret thoughts:

21151907So smoothe he daubd his vice with shew of vertue,

21161908That his apparant open guilt omitted:

21171909I meane his conuersation with Shores wife,

21181910He laid from all attainder of suspect.

21191911Buck. Well well, he was the couertst sheltred traitor

21201912That euer liu'd, would you haue imagined,

21211913Or almost beleeue, wert not by great preseruation

21231914We liue to tell it you? The subtile traitor

21241915Had this day plotted in the councell house,

21251916To murder me, and my good Lord of Glocester.

21261917Maior. What, had he so?

21271918Glo. What thinke you we are Turkes or Infidels,

21281919Or that we would against the forme of lawe,

21291920Proceede thus rashly to the villaines death,

21301921But that the extreame perill of the case,

21311922The peace of England, and our persons safety

21321923Inforst vs to this execution.

21331924Ma. Now faire befall you, he deserued his death,

21341925And you my good Lords both, haue well proceeded

21351926To warne false traitours from the like attempts:

21361927I neuer lookt for better at his hands,

21371928After he once fell in with Mistresse Shore.

21381929Dut. Yet had not we determined he should die,

21391930Vntill your Lordship came to see his death,

21401931Which now the longing haste of these our friends,

21411932Somewhat against our meaning haue preuented,

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