Augusta].

[Chancellor rings the bell, and walks eagerly up and down.--Philip
enters surrounded by Officers of Justice.]

_Chancellor._ Nearer, Mr. Brook! [To the officers] Leave us till I
call.

_Philip_ [with firmness]. What have you to say?

_Chancellor._ Terrified? Pale? starting eyes? So amazed, conqueror of
the world? You have thrown off the mask--I will do the same. [Pause].
Young man, you are too weak to take a grain of this power; a single
grain is sufficient to destroy you.--Will you implore my forgiveness,
and bind yourself to eternal silence? Then quit the country, and I will
forget.

_Philip._ No!

_Chancellor._ Man, who gave me half an hour's delay, I now give it to
you. Answer me; will you submit, or never see the day-light more?

_Philip._ Thy banishments, thy imprisonments, will avail nothing, as
long as thy sworn enemy lives.--Murder is thy only security, and on
that thy coward heart dares not venture.

_Chancellor._ Thou art in my hands, worm! Who cares if I trample upon
thee? Who dares to rise up against me, possessed, as I am, of the chief
authority of the State, and of the confidence of the Prince? What
remains to thee, thou poor wretch?

_Philip._ My heart.

_Chancellor._ Go, grovel in fetters; there wait thy fate, while thy
wiser brother laughs at thee.

_Philip._ My brother? my brother? Hah! perhaps now--[going towards the
door, followed hastily by the Chancellor, who locks it]. Lewis, Lewis!

_Chancellor._ Frantic villain!

_Philip._ Lewis! Lewis! brother! help!

_Chancellor_ [rings the bell and calls]. Stop him, stop him!

_Lewis_ [from without]. I will go in!

_Philip._ Lewis! Lewis! for the last time, I call, help, help!

_Lewis_ [from without]. I come [forcing the door. Constables from the
other side. Counsellor and Clerk, with Lewis, enter]. What is the
matter?

_Counsellor._ You villain! To assault me, to accuse your brother, to
seek his life!--[To the constables] Off with him! [they seize Philip.]

_Philip._ No! No! Lewis! [throws a pocket-book to him] Take this book
[Couns. snatches the book]. Lewis, your uncle--remember, remember.
[Exit with constables.]

_Lewis_ [attempting to follow him, withheld by the Chancellor and the
Counsellor]. Let me go.

_Chancellor._ For God's sake, do not approach him; he seeks your ruin,
your life; he is dangerous. [They lead Lewis into the Chancellor's
Room.]

END OF THE FOURTH ACT.