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The Massacre

If your commission serve to warrant this,
I thankfully shall undertake the charge
Of you and yours, and carefully maintaine
the wealth and safety of your kingdomes right.

Lord.
All this and more your highnes shall commaund,
For Polands crowne and kingly diadem.

Anjoy.
Then come my Lords, lets goe. Exeunt.

Enter two with the Admirals body.


1.
Now sirra, what shall we doe with the Admirall?

2.
Why let us burne him for a heretick.

1.
O no, his bodye will infect the fire, and the fire the aire, and so we shall be poysoned with him.

2.
What shall we doe then?

1.
Lets throw him into the river.

2.
Oh twill corrupt the water, and the water the fish, and the fish our selves when we eate them.

1.
Then throw him into the ditch.

2.
No, no, to decide all doubts, be rulde by me, lets hang him heere upon this tree.

1.
Agreede. They hang him.

Enter the Duke of Guise, and Queene Mother, and the Cardinall.


Guise.
Now Madame, how like you our lusty Admirall?

Queene.