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SCENE IV. - Christopher Marlowe, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, vol. 2 [1593]

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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, ed. A.H. Bullen (London: John C. Nimmo, 1885). Vol. 2.

Part of: The Works of Christopher Marlowe, 3 vols.

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SCENE IV.

Enter1 Governor, Knights, andDelBosco.

Gov.

  • In this, my countrymen, be ruled by me,
  • Have special care that no man sally forth
  • Till you shall hear a culverin discharged
  • By him that bears the linstock,2 kindled thus;
  • Then issue out and come to rescue me,
  • For happily I shall be in distress,
  • Or you released of this servitude.

Knight.

  • Rather than thus to live as Turkish thralls,
  • What will we not adventure?

Gov.

  • On then, be gone.

Knight.

  • Farewell, grave Governor!
  • [Exeunt.

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[1]Scene: a street.

[2]The stick that held the gunner's match.