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SCENE XII. - 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 XII.

Enter1five or six Protestants, with books, and kneel together. Then enterGuiseand others.

Guise.

  • Down with the Huguenots! murder them!

First Pro.

  • O Monsieur de Guise, hear me but speak!

Guise.

  • No, villain; that tongue of thine,
  • That hath blasphem'd the holy Church of Rome,
  • Shall drive no plaints into the Guise's ears,
  • To make the justice of my heart relent.—
  • Tuez, tuez, tuez! let none escape.
  • They kill the Protestants.
  • So, drag them away.
  • [Exeunt with the bodies.

[1]Scene. a wood near Paris.