kes care for you in this, too.
_Pike_. Excellent Ladye I doe now beleive
Virtue and weomen are growne frends againe.
_Enter Don John_.
_Jo_. What magicall Illusion's this? 'tis she!
Confusion seize your charitable blindnesse!
Are you a prison visiter for this,
To cherish my dishonour for your merit?
_Cat_. My lord, I hope my Charity workes for your honour,
Releiving him whose mercy spard your life.
_Jo_. But that I'me subiect to the law & know
My blowes are mortall, I would strike thee dead.
Ignoble & degenerate from Spanish bloud,
Darst thou maintaine this to be charity?
Thy strumpett itch & treason to my bed
Thou seekst to act in cherishing this villaine.
_Cat_. Saints be my witnesses you doe me wrong!
_Jo_. Thou robbst my honour.
_Pike_. You wound her honour and you robb yourselfe,
And me and all good Christians, by this outrage.
_Jo_. Doe you prate, sir?
_Pike_. Sir, I may speake; my tongue's unshackled yet,
And, were my hands and feete so, on free ground
I would mayntayne the honour of this Lady
Against an Hoast of such ignoble husbands.
_Jo_. You are condemnd allready by the Law
I make no doubt; and therefore speake your pleasure.
--And here come those fore whom my rage is silent.
_Enter Ferdinando, Teniente, Guard_.
_Fer_. Deliver up your prisoner to the _Teniente_.
I need not, sir, instruct you in your place
To beare him with a guard as is appointed
Unto the publicke tryall held at _Sherrys_.
_Ten_. It shalbe done.
_Fer_. How long hath he bene your prisoner?
_Jay_. 18 days.
_Fer_. You & the Surgeons out of the Kings pay
Ile see dischargd.--You have, according to the Order,
Conveyd already _Bustamente_ thither
To yeild account for yeilding up the Castle?
_Ten_. 'Tis done, my Lord.
_Fer_. _Don John_, you likewise in his Maiesties name
Stand chargd to make your personall appearance
To give in evidence against this prisoner.
_Jo_. I shall be ready there, my Lord.
_Pike_. To _Sherrys_? they say the best sackes there.
I meane to take one draught of dying comfort.
_Cat_. I hope you'le not deny my company
To waite on you to _Sherris_?
_Jo_. No, you shall goe to see your frend there totter.[27]
_Pike_. I have a suite, my Lord; to see an _Englishman_,
A merchant, prisoner here, before I goe.
_Fer_. Call him; that done, you know your charge.
[_Exit Jaylor_.
_Ten_. And shall performe it.
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