_Tow._ Provided that we may have equal hearing, I am content to yield, though I declare, You have no power to judge us. [_Gives his sword._ _Beam._ Barbarous, ungrateful Dutch! _Har._ See them conveyed apart to several prisons, Lest they combine to forge some specious lie In their excuse. Let Towerson and that woman too be parted. _Isab._ Was ever such a sad divorce made on a bridal night! But we before were parted, ne'er to meet. Farewell, farewell, my last and only love! _Tow._ Curse on my fond credulity, to think There could be faith or honour in the Dutch!-- Farewell my Isabinda, and farewell, My much wronged countrymen! remember yet, That no unmanly weakness in your sufferings Disgrace the native honour of our isle: For you I mourn, grief for myself were vain; I have lost all, and now would lose my pain. [_Exeunt._ ACT V. SCENE I.--_A Table set out._ _Enter_ HARMAN, FISCAL, VAN HERRING, _and two Dutchmen: They sit. Boy, and Waiters, Guards._ _Har._ My sorrow cannot be so soon digested for losing of a son I loved so well; but I consider great advantages must with some loss be bought; as this rich trade which I this day have purchased with his death: yet let me lie revenged, and I shall still live on, and eat and drink down all my griefs. Now to the matter, Fiscal. _Fisc._ Since we may freely speak among ourselves, all I have said of Towerson was most false. You were consenting, sir, as well as I, that Perez should be hired to murder him, which he refusing when he was engaged, 'tis dangerous to let him longer live. _Van. Her._ Dispatch him; he will be a shrewd witness against us, if he returns to Europe. _Fisc._ I have thought better, if you please,--to kill him by form of law, as accessary to the English plot, which I have long been forging. _Har._ Send one to seize him strait. [_Exit a Messenger._] But what you said, that Towerson was guiltless of my son's death, I easily believe, and never thought otherwise, though I dissembled. _Van Her._ Nor I; but it was well done to feign that story. _1 Dutch._ The true one was too foul. _2 Dutch._ And afterwards to draw the English off from his concernment, to their own, I think 'twas rarely managed that. _Har._ So far, 'twas well; now to proceed, for I would gladly know, whether the grounds are plausible enough of this pretended plot. _Fisc._ With favour of this honourable court, give me but leave to smooth the way before you. Some two or three nights since, (it matters not,) a Japan soldier, under captain Perez, came to a centinel upon the guard, and in familiar talk did question him about this castle, of its strength, and how he thought it might be taken; this discourse the other told me early the next morning: I thereupon did issue private orders, to rack the Japanese, myself being present. _Har._ But what's this to the English?