of his crime,
Who, with the rest of your accomplices,
Your countrymen, and Towerson the chief,
Whom we too kindly used, would have surprised
The fort, and made us slaves; that shall be proved,
More soon than you imagine; I found it out
This evening.
_Tow._ Sure the devil has lent thee all his stock of falsehood, and
must be forced hereafter to tell truth.
_Beam._ Sir, it is impossible you should believe it.
_Har._ Seize them all.
_Col._ You cannot be so base.
_Har._ I'll be so just, 'till I can hear your plea
Against this plot; which if not proved, and fully,
You are quit; mean time, resistance is but vain.
_Tow._ Provided that we may have equal hearing,
I am content to yield, though I declare,
You have no power to judge us. [_Gives his sword._
_Beam._ Barbarous, ungrateful Dutch!
_Har._ See them conveyed apart to several prisons,
Lest they combine to forge some specious lie
In their excuse.
Let Towerson and that woman too be parted.
_Isab._ Was ever such a sad divorce made on a bridal night!
But we before were parted, ne'er to meet.
Farewell, farewell, my last and only love!
_Tow._ Curse on my fond credulity, to think
There could be faith or honour in the Dutch!--
Farewell my Isabinda, and farewell,
My much wronged countrymen! remember yet,
That no unmanly weakness in your sufferings
Disgrace the native honour of our isle:
For you I mourn, grief for myself were vain;
I have lost all, and now would lose my pain. [_Exeunt._
ACT V.
SCENE I.--_A Table set out._
_Enter_ HARMAN, FISCAL, VAN HERRING, _and two Dutchmen: They sit.
Boy, and Waiters, Guards._
_Har._ My sorrow cannot be so soon digested for losing of a son I
loved so well; but I consider great advantages must with some loss be
bought; as this rich trade which I this day have purchased with his
death: yet let me lie revenged, and I shall still live on, and eat and
drink down all my griefs. Now to the matter, Fiscal.
_Fisc._ Since we may freely speak among ourselves, all I have said of
Towerson was most false. You were consenting, sir, as well as I, that
Perez should be hired to murder him, which he refusing when he was
engaged, 'tis dangerous to let him longer live.
_Van. Her._ Dispatch him; he will be a shrewd witness against us, if
he returns to Europe.
_Fisc._ I have thought better, if you please,--to kill him by form of
law, as accessary to the English plot, which I have l
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