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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 III.

Enter theKingofNavarre,2QueenMargaret, theOldQueenofNavarre, thePrinceofCondè, and theAdmiral; they are met by the Apothecary with the gloves, which he gives to theOldQueen.

Apoth.

• Madam,
• I beseech your grace to accept this simple gift.

Old Q. of Nav.

• Thanks, my good friend. Hold, take thou this reward.
• [Gives a purse.

Apoth.

• I humbly thank your majesty.
• [Exit.

Old Q. of Nav.

• Methinks the gloves have a very strong perfume,
• The scent whereof doth make my head to ache.

Nav.

• Doth not your grace know the man that gave them you?

Old Q. of Nav.

• Not well; but do remember such a man.

Adm.

• Your grace was ill-advised to take them, then,
• Considering of these dangerous times.

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Old Q. of Nav.

• Help, son Navarre! I am poisoned!

Mar.

• The heavens forbid your highness such mishap!

Nav.

• The late suspicion of the Duke of Guise
• Might well have moved your highness to beware
• How you did meddle with such dangerous gifts.

Mar.

• Too late it is, my lord, if that be true,
• To blame her highness; but I hope it be

Old Q. of Nav.

• O no, sweet Margaret! the fatal poison
• Works within my head'; my brain-pan breaks;

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• My heart doth faint; I die!
• [Dies.

Nav.

• My mother poisoned here before my face!
• O gracious God, what times are these!
• O grant, sweet God, my days may end with hers,
• That I with her may die and live again!

Mar.

• Let not this heavy chance, my dearest lord
• (For whose effects my soul is massacrèd),
• Infect thy gracious breast with fresh supply
• To aggravate our sudden misery.

Adm.

• Come, my lords, let us bear her body hence,

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• And see it honoured with just solemnity.
• [As they are going out, the Soldier dischargeth his musket at theAdmiral.

Con.

• What, are you hurt, my Lord High Admiral?

Adm.

• Ay, my good lord, shot through the arm.

Nav.

• We1 are betrayed come, my lords,
• And let us Go tell the king of this.”

Adm.

• These are
• The cursèd Guisians, that do seek our death.
• O fatal was this marriage to us all!
• [Exeunt, bearing out the body of theOldQueenofNavarre.

[2]Scene: a street.

[1]Cunningham arranges ll. 34-5 thus:—

• “We are betrayed! Come, my lords, and let us
• Go tell the king of this.”