English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
2 _Mur_. No Child, thy wicked Unckle hath suborn'd
Both him and me to take thy life away,
Which I would save, but that this hellish impe
Will not content to spare thy guiltlesse blood.
_Per_. Why should _Falleria_ seeke to have my life?
2 _mur_. The lands and goods, thy father left his sonne,
Do hale thee on to thy destruction.
_Per_. Oh needy treasure, harme-begetting good!
That safety[23] should procure the losse of blood!
2 _mur_. Those lands and goods, thy father got with paine,
Are swords wherewith his little sonne is slaine.
1 _mu_. Then let our swords let out his guiltlesse life.
_Per_. Sweete, sowre, kinde, cruell, hold thy murthering knife,
And here [_sic_] me speake, before you murther me.
2 _mu_. Feare not, sweet child, he shall not murther thee.
1 _mu_. No, but my sword shall let his puddings forth.
_Per_. First here me speake, thou map of Butcherie:
Tis but my goods and lands my Unckle seekes;
Having that safely, he desires no more.
I do protest by my dead parents soules,
By the deare love of false _Fallerios_ sonne,
Whose heart, my heart assures me, will be griev'd
To heare his fathers inhumanitie,
I will forsake my countrie, goods, and lands,
I, and my selfe will even change my selfe,
In name, in life, in habit, and in all,
And live in some farre-moved continent,
So you will spare my weake and tender youth,
Which cannot entertaine the stroake of death
In budding yeares and verie spring of life.
1 _Mur_. Leave of these bootlesse protestations,
And use no ruth-enticing argumentes,
For if you do, ile lop you lim by lim,
And torture you for childish eloquence.
2 _Mur_. Thou shalt not make his little finger ake.
1 _Mur_. Yes, every part, and this shall proove it true.
[_Runnes Perillo in with his sworde_.
_Per_. Oh I am slaine, the Lord forgive thy fact!
And give thee grace to dye with penitence. [_Dyeth_.
2 _Mur_. A treacherous villaine, full of cowardise!
Ile make thee know that thou hast done amisse.
1 _m_. Teach me that knowledge when you will or dare.
[_They fight and kill one another; the relenter
having some more life, and the other dyeth_.
1 _mur_. Swoones, I am peppered, I had need have salt,
Or else to morrow I shall yeeld a stincke,
Worse then a heape of dirty excrements.
Now by this Hilt, this golde was earn'd too deare:
Ah, how now death, wilt thou be conquerour?
Then vengeance light on them that made me so,
And ther's another farewell ere I goe.
[_Stab the other murtherer againe_.
2 _mur_. Enough, enough, I had my death before.
[_A hunt within_.
_Enter the Duke of Padua, Turqualo, Vesuvio, Alberto, &c_.
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