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 Roch.It was vpon his master then he did, That in the brawle the traitor might escape.

Lief.Where is this Harpoole?

2Here he was euen now.

Lief.Where can you tell? they are both escap'd, Since it so happens that he is escap'de, I am glad you are a witnesse of the same, It might haue else beene laid vnto my charge, That I had beene consenting to the fact.

Roch.Come, search shal be made for him with expedition, the hauens laid that he shall not escape, and hue and crie continue thorough England, to find this damned dangerous heretike.

Camb.In mine opinion, Scroope hath well aduisde, Poison will be the only aptest meane, And fittest for our purpose to dispatch him.

GrayBut yet there may be doubt in their deliuery, Harry is wise, therefore Earle of Cambridge, I Iudge that way not so conuenient.

ScroopWhat thinke ye then of this? I am his bedfellow, And vnsuspected nightly sleepe with him. VVhat if I venture in those silent houres, VVhen sleepe hath sealed vp all mortall eies, To murder him in bed? how like ye that?

Camb.Herein consistes no safetie for your selfe, And you disclosde, what shall become of vs? But this day (as ye know) he will aboord, The wind so faire, and set away for France, If as he goes, or entring in the ship, It might be done, then it were excellent,

GrayVVhy any of these, or if you will, Ile cause a present sitting of the Councell, VVherein I will pretend some matter of such weight, As