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• Publisher's Notice
• To My Worthy Friend , Master Thomas Hammon, of Gray's Inn , &c.
• Persons Represented.
• The Jew of Malta.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Edward the Second.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• The Massacre At Paris.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Scene XVII.
• Scene XVIII.
• Scene XIX.
• Scene XX.
• Scene XXI.
• Scene XXII.
• Scene XXIII.
• Scene XXIV.
• The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.
• Act I.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act II.
• Scene I.
• Act III.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene Iii
• Scene IV.
• Scene V
• Act V.
• Scene I.

SCENE II.

EnterMathias.1

Math.

• This is the place, now Abigail shall see Whether Mathias holds her dear or no.
• EnterLodowick.1
• What, dares the villain write in such base terms?
• [Reading a letter.

Lod.

• I did it; and revenge it if thou dar'st.
• [They fight.
• EnterBarabas, above.2

Bar.

• O! bravely fought; and yet they thrust not home.
• Now, Lodowick! now, Mathias! So—
• [Both fall.
• So now they have showed themselves to be tall3 fellows.
• [Cries within.] Part 'em, part 'em.

Bar.

• Ay, part 'em now they are dead. Farewell, farewell.
• [Exit.
• Enter Governor andMathias'S Mother.

Gov.

• What sight is this?—my Lodowick4 slain!

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• These arms of mine shall be thy sepulchre.5

Mother.

• Who is this? my son Mathias slain!

Gov.

• O Lodowick! had'st thou perished by the Turk,
• Wretched Ferneze might have 'venged thy death.

Mother.

• Thy son slew mine, and I'll revenge his death.

Gov.

• Look, Katherine, look!— thy son gave mine these wounds.

Mother.

• O leave to grieve me, I am grieved enough.

Gov.

• O! that my sighs could turn to lively breath;

Gov.

• And these my tears to blood, that he might live.

Mother.

• Who made them enemies?

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Gov.

• I know not, and that grieves me most of all.

Mother.

• My son loved thine.

Gov.

• And so did Lodowick him.

Mother.

• Lend me that weapon that did kill my son,
• And it shall murder me.

Gov.

• Nay, madam, stay; that weapon was my son's,
• And on that rather should Ferneze die.

Mother.

• Hold, let's inquire the causers of their deaths,
• That we may 'venge their blood upon their heads.

Gov.

• Then take them up, and let them be interred
• Within one sacred monument of stone;

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• Upon which altar1 I will offer up
• My daily sacrifice of sighs and tears,
• And with my prayers pierce impartial2 heavens,
• Till they [reveal] the causers of our smarts,
• Which forced their hands divide united hearts:
• Come, Katherine, our losses equal are,
• Then of true grief let us take equal share.
• [Exeunt with the bodies.

[1]Scene: a street.

[1]Old ed.— “Enter Lodow, reading.

“Math. What dares the villain,” &c. The challenge was “feign'd from Lodowick.”

[2]On the upper-stage, a raised platform.

[3]Bold.

[4]Here and elsewhere, for the sake of the metre, Dyce prints “Lodovico.” Perhaps he is right, for the name may have been contracted into “Lod.” or “Lodo.” in the MS. from which the play was printed.

[5]Dyce compares 3 Henry VI., n. 5:—

• “These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;
• My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre”—
• lines not found in the True Tragedie.

[1]Cf. Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 2:—

• “Say that upon the altar of her beauty
• You sacrifice your tears.”

[2]“Impartial” is occasionally used by old writers in the sense of “unkindly.” Cf. Prologue to Peele's Arraignment of Paris:—

• “Th' unpartial daughters of Necessity
• Bin aiders in her suit.”
• So in William Smith's Chlorts (Sonnet 11):
• “No, it was not Nature's ornament
• But wingèd love's unpartial cruel wound.”