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That this my death may never be forgot.

Great men oft die by vile besonians.

A Roman sworder and banditto slave

Murder'd sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand

Stabb'd Julius Cæsar; savage islanders

Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.

Exit Walter with Suffolk.

Lieu. And as for these whose ransom we have set,

It is our pleasure one of them depart:

Therefore come you with us and let him go.

Exit Lieutenant, and the rest. Manet the first Gent.

Whit. There let his head and lifeless body lie,

Until the queen his mistress bury it.

1. Gent. O barbarous and bloody spectacle!

His body will I bear unto the king:

If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;

So will the queen, that living held him dear.

[Exit with the body.]

Bevis. Come, and get thee a sword, though

made of a lath: they have been up these two

days.

Holl. They have the more need to sleep now

then.

Bevis. I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means

 134 besonians: beggars

135 sworder: gladiator

137 savage islanders; cf. n.

 2 up: in arms

6 clothier: cloth-worker 