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The Jew of Malta.

They'll dye with griefe.

Ith.
Doe you not sorrow for your daughters death?

Bar.
No, but I grieve because she liv'd so long an Hebrew Catho diabola.
Borne, and would become a Christian.

Enter the two Fryars.


Ith.
Look, look, Mr. here come two religious Caterpillers.

Bar.
I smelt 'em e're they came.

Ith.
God-a-mercy nose; come let's begone.

2 Fry.
Stay wicked Jew, repent, I say, and stay.

1 Fry.
Thou hast offended, therefore must be damn'd.

Bar.
I feare they know we sent the poyson'd broth.

Ith,
And so doe I, master, therefore speake 'em faire.

2.
Barabas, thou hast ——

1.
I, that thou hast ——

Bar.
True, I have mony, what though I have?

2.
Thou art a ————

1.
I, that thou art a ————

Bar.
What needs all this? I know I am a Jew.

2.
Thy daughter ———

1.
I, thy daughter, ——

Bar.
Oh speake not of her, then I dye with griefe.

2.
Remember that ——

1.
I, remember that ——

Bar.
I must needs say that I have beene a great usurer.

2.
Thou hast committed ——

Bar.
Fornication? but that was in another Country:
And besides, the Wench is dead.

2.
I, but Barabas remember Mathias and Don Lodowick.

Bar.
Why, what of them?

2.
I will not say that by a forged challenge they met.

Bar.
She has confest, and we are both undone;
My bosome inmates, but I must dissemble.aside.
Oh holy Fryars, the burthen of my sinnes
Lye heavy on my soule; then pray you tell me,
Is't not too late now to turne Christian?
I have beene zealous in the Jewish faith,
Hard harted to the poore, a covetous wretch,

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