ACT V. SCENE VI. The same. Before the Carrier’s Inn.

Enter Watch.

FIRST WATCH.

First beset the house, before you begin the search.

SECOND WATCH.

Content; every man take a several place.

[Here is heard a great noise within. Keep, keep,

strike him down there, down with him]]

[Enter Constable with the Irish man in Harpoole’s

apparel.]

CONSTABLE.

Come, you villainous heretic, confess where your

master is.

IRISHMAN.

Vat mester?

MAYOR.

Vat mester, you counterfeit rebel? this shall not serve

your turn.

IRISHMAN.

Be sent Patrick I ha no mester.

CONSTABLE.

Where’s the lord Cobham, sir John Old-castle, that

lately is escaped out of the Tower?

IRISHMAN.

Vat lort Cobham?

MAYOR.

You counterfeit, this shall not serve you; we’ll torture

you, we’ll make you to confess where that arch-heretic,

Lord Cobham, is: come, bind him fast.

IRISHMAN.

Ahone, ahone, ahone, a Cree!

CONSTABLE.

Ahone, you crafty rascal!

[Exeunt.]

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