LUS. Why do you shun me, brothers? You may come nearer now; The savour of the prison has forsook me. I thank such kind lords as yourselves, I'm free. AMB. Alive! SUP. In health! AMB. Releas'd! We were both e'en amaz'd with joy to see it.[78] LUS. I am much to thank to you. SUP. Faith, we spar'd no tongue unto my lord the duke. AMB. I know your delivery, brother, Had not been half so sudden but for us. SUP. O, how we pleaded! LUS. Most deserving brothers! In my best studies I will think of it. [_Exit_ LUSURIOSO. AMB. O death and vengeance! SUP. Hell and torment! AMB. Slave, cam'st thou to delude us? OFFICER. Delude you, my lords? SUP. Ay, villain, where's his head now? OFFICER. Why here, my lord; Just after his delivery, you both came With warrant from the duke to behead your brother. AMB. Ay, our brother, the duke's son. OFFICER. The duke's son, my lord, had his release before you came. AMB. Whose head's that, then? OFFICER. His whom you left command for, your own brother's. AMB. Our brother's? O furies! SUP. Plagues! AMB. Confusions! SUP. Darkness! AMB. Devils! SUP. Fell it out so accursedly? AMB. So damnedly? SUP. Villain, I'll brain thee with it. OFFICER. O my good lord! SUP. The devil overtake thee! AMB. O fatal! SUP. O prodigious to our bloods! AMB. Did we dissemble? SUP. Did we make our tears women for thee? AMB. Laugh and rejoice for thee? SUP. Bring warrant for thy death.? AMB. Mock off thy head? SUP. You had a trick: you had a wile, forsooth. AMB. A murrain meet 'em; there's none of these wiles that ever come to good: I see now, there's nothing sure in mortality, but mortality. Well, no more words: shalt be revenged, i' faith. Come, throw off clouds; now, brother, think of vengeance, And deeper-settled hate; sirrah, sit fast, We'll pull down all, but thou shalt down at last. [_Exeunt._ FOOTNOTES: [67] The 4o reads, _Which arise_, &c.--_Collier._ [68] [Edits., _impudent_. _The least imprudent_ is equivalent to the most farsighted or wary.] [69] _i.e._, Hat. [70] Stopped. See several instances of the use of this word in Mr Steevens's note on "Romeo and Juliet," act i. sc. 3. [71] Alluding, I think, to _Duns Scotus_, who commented upon "The Master of the Sentences."--_Pegge._