_Fal_. Declare it then, my wits are now to seeke; That peece of life hath so confounded mee That I am wholly overcome with feare. _Allen_. The Duke hath vow'd to prosecute your life, With all the strict severitie he can; But I will crosse his resolution And keepe you from his furie well enough. Ile weare your habit, I will seeme the man That did suborne the bloodie murtherers; I will not stir from out this house of woe, But waight the comming of the officers, And answere for you fore the angrie Duke, And, if neede be, suffer your punishment. _Fall_. Ile none of that; I do not like the last; I love thee dearer then I doe my life, And all I did, was to advance thy state To sunne-bright beames of shining happinesse. _Allen_. Doubte not my life, for when I doe appeare Before the Duke, I being not the man, He can inflict no punishment on mee. _Fall_. Mas, thou saiest true, a cannot punish thee; Thou wert no actor of their Tragaedie. But for my beard thou canst not counterfet And bring gray haires uppon thy downy chinne; White frostes are never seene in summers spring. _Allen_. I bought a beard this day at _Padua_, Such as our common actors use to weare When youth would put on ages countenance; So like in shape, in colour, and in all, To that which growes upon your aged face, That were I dressed in your abilimentes, Your selfe would scarcely know me from your selfe. _Fall_. That's excellent. What shape hast thou devis'd, To be my vizard to delude the worlde? _Allen_. Why thus: ile presentlie shave off your haire, And dresse you in a lowlie shepheardes weede; Then you will seeme to have the carefull charge Of some wealth-bringing, rich, and fleecy flocke, And so passe currant from suspition. _Fall_. This care of thine, my sonne, doth testifie, Nature in thee hath firme predominance, That neither losse of friend, nor vile reproch, Can shake thee with their strongest violence: In this disguise, ile see the end of thee, That thou, acquited, then maist succour me. _Allen_. I am assur'd to be exempt from woe:-- This plot will worke my certaine overthrowe. [_(To the) People_. _Fall_. I will beare hence thy mother, and my wife, Untimely murthered with true sorrowes knife. [_Exit_. _Allen_. Untimely murthered! happy was that griefe, Which hath abridg'd whole numbers numberlesse Of hart-surcharging deplorations. She shall have due and Christian funerall, And rest in peace amongst her auncestors. As for our bodies, they shall be inter'd, In ravening mawes, of Ravens, Puttockes, Crowes, Of tatlin[g] Magpies, and deathes harbingers, That wilbe glutted with winde-shaken limmes Of blood-delighting hatefull murtherers. And yet these many winged sepulchers, Shall turne to earth, so I and father shall, At last attaine to earth by funerall. Well I will prosecute my pollicy, That wished death may end my miseries. [_Exit_. [SCENE VII.] _Enter Cowley and Williams_.