_Cath._ Your majesty were best go visit him, And make a show as if all were well. _Char._ Content; I will go visit the Admiral. 50 _Guise._ And I will go take order for his death. [_Exeunt_.[363] SCENE V. _The_[364] ADMIRAL _discovered in bed. Enter_ KING CHARLES. _Char._ How fares it with my Lord High Admiral? Hath he been hurt with villain's in the street? I vow and swear, as I am king of France, To find and to repay the man with death, With death delayed and torments never us'd, That durst presume, for hope of any gain, To hurt the nobleman their[365] sovereign loves. _Adm._ Ah, my good lord, these are the Guisians, That seek to massacre our guiltless lives! _Char._ Assure yourself, my good Lord Admiral, 10 I deeply sorrow for your treacherous wrong; And that I am not more secure myself Than I am careful you should be preserv'd.-- Cousin, take twenty of our strongest guard, And, under your direction, see they keep All treacherous violence from our noble friend; Repaying all attempts with present death Upon the cursèd breakers of our peace.-- And so be patient, good Lord Admiral, And every hour I will visit you. 20 _Adm._ I humbly thank your royal majesty. [_Exit_ CHARLES. _The bed is drawn in._ SCENE VI. _Enter_[366] GUISE, ANJOU, DUMAINE, GONZAGO, RETES, MOUNTSORRELL, _and_ Soldiers, _to the massacre_. _Guise._ Anjou, Dumaine, Gonzago, Retes, swear, By the argent crosses in your burgonets, To kill all that you suspect of heresy. _Dum._ I swear by this, to be unmerciful. _Anj._ I am disguis'd, and none knows who I am, And therefore mean to murder all I meet. _Gon._ And so will I. _Retes._ And I. _Guise._ Away, then! break into the Admiral's house. _Retes._ I, let the Admiral be first despatch'd. _Guise._ The Admiral, 10 Chief standard-bearer to the Lutherans, Shall in the entrance[367] of this massacre Be murder'd in his bed. Gonzago, conduct them thither; and then Beset his house, that not a man may live. _Anj._ That charge is mine.--Switzers, keep you the streets; And at each corner shall the king's guard stand. _Gon._ Come, sirs, follow me. [_Exit_ GONZAGO _with others_. _Anj._ Cousin, the captain of the Admiral's guard, Plac'd by my brother, will betray his lord. 20 Now, Guise, shall Catholics flourish once again; The head being off, the members cannot stand. _Retes._ But look, my lord, there's some in the Admiral's house.