But Hieronymus assures him that Fides and Virtus will defend him from all danger, and under their protection he leaves him. The scene is now again at the door, Mors arrives. Satan abuses her for having made him wait so long, and the _improba bestia_ in return reproaches him for his ingratitude and imprudence. However they make up their quarrel. Satan goes into the house expecting to have a long controversy with his intended victim, and Mors amuses herself in the mean time with sharpening her dart. Satan, however, finds that his controversy is not to be with Hecastus himself, but with his two advocates Fides and Virtus, and they plead their cause so provokingly that the old Lawyer tears his bill, and sculks into a corner to see how Mors will come off. Now comes his son the Doctor and prognosticates speedy dissolution _ex pulsu et atro lotio_. And having more professional pride than filial feelings he would fain persuade the Acolyte who is about to assist in administering extreme unction, that he has chosen a thankless calling, and would do wisely if he forsook it for more gainful studies. The youth makes a good defence for his choice, and remains master in the argument, for the Doctor getting sight of Death brandishing the sharpened dart, takes fright and runs off. Having put the Doctor to flight, Death enters the sick chamber, and finding Fides there calls in Satan as an ally: their joint force avails nothing against Virtus, Fides and Hieronymus, and these dismiss the departing Spirit under a convoy of Angels to Abraham's bosom. Three supplementary scenes conclude the two dramas; in the two first the widow and the sons and kinsmen lament the dead, and declare their intention of putting themselves all in mourning, and giving a funeral worthy of his rank. But Hieronymus reproves them for the excess of their grief, and for the manner by which they intended to show their respect for the dead. The elder son is convinced by his discourse, and replies _Recte mones vir omnium piissime, Linquamus omnem hunc apparatum splendidum, Linquamus hæcce cuncta in usum pauperum, Linquamus omnem luctum inanem et lachrymas; Moresque nostros corrigamus pristinos. Si multo amœniora vitæ munia, Post hanc calamitatem, morantur in fide Spe ut charitate mortuos, quid residuum est Nisi et hunc diem cum patre agamus mortuo Lætissimum? non in cibis et poculis Gravioribus, natura quam poposcerit; Nec tympanis et organis, sed maximas Deo exhibendo gratias. Viro pio Congaudeamus intimis affectibus; Et absque pompâ inituli exequias pias Patri paremus mortuo._ The Steward then concludes the drama by dismissing the audience in these lines; _Vos qui advolastis impigri ad Nostra hæc theatra, tum viri, tum fœminæ, Adite nunc vestras domos sine remorâ. Nam Hecastus hic quem Morte cæsum exhibuimus, Non ante tertium diem tumulandus est, Valete cuncti, et si placuimus, plaudite._