[_A charge; the cable cut._ BARABAS _falls into a caldron. Enter_ MARTIN DEL BOSCO _and_ Knights.[158] _Caly._ How now, what means this! _Bar._ Help, help me, Christians, help. _Gov._ See, Calymath, this was devised for thee. _Caly._ Treason! treason! bassoes, fly! 70 _Gov._ No, Selim, do not fly; See his end first, and fly then if thou canst. _Bar._ O help me, Selim, help me, Christians! Governor, why stand you all so pitiless? _Gov._ Should I in pity of thy plaints or thee, Accursèd Barabas, base Jew, relent? No, thus I'll see thy treachery repaid, But wish thou hadst behaved thee otherwise. _Bar._ You will not help me, then? _Gov._ No, villain, no. 80 _Bar._ And, villains, know you cannot help me now-- Then, Barabas, breathe forth thy latest hate,[159] And in the fury of thy torments strive To end thy life with resolution; Know, Governor, 'twas I that slew thy son; I framed the challenge that did make them meet: Know, Calymath, I aimed thy overthrow, And had I but escaped this stratagem, I would have brought confusion on you all, Damned Christians! dogs! and Turkish infidels! 90 But now begins the extremity of heat To pinch me with intolerable pangs: Die life, fly soul, tongue curse thy fill, and die! [_Dies._ _Caly._ Tell me, you Christians, what doth this portend? _Gov._ This train he laid to have entrapped thy life; Now, Selim, note the unhallowed deeds of Jews: Thus he determined to have handled thee, But I have rather chose to save thy life. _Caly._ Was this the banquet he prepared for us? Let's hence, lest further mischief be pretended.[160] 100 _Gov._ Nay, Selim, stay, for since we have thee here, We will not let thee part so suddenly; Besides, if we should let thee go, all's one, For with thy galleys could'st thou not get hence, Without fresh men to rig and furnish them. _Caly._ Tush, Governor, take thou no care for that, My men are all aboard. And do attend my coming there by this. _Gov._ Why, heard'st thou not the trumpet sound a charge? _Caly._ Yes, what of that? 110 _Gov._ Why then the house was fired, Blown up, and all thy soldiers massacred. _Caly._ O monstrous treason! _Gov._ A Jew's courtesy: For he that did by treason work our fall, By treason hath delivered thee to us: Know, therefore, till thy father hath made good The ruins done to Malta and to us, Thou canst not part: for Malta shall be freed, Or Selim ne'er return to Ottoman. 120 _Caly._ Nay, rather, Christians, let me go to Turkey, In person there to mediate[161] your peace; To keep me here will not advantage you.