Leid.  All that I know I will deliver to you, And beyond that your Excellence nor their Lordships Will not, I hope, perswade me.

Vand.  In the meane time You are a prisoner.

Boy.  Who? my father?

Bred.  Yes, Boy.

Boy.  Then I will be a prisoner, too.  For heaven sake
Let me goe with him, for theis naughtie men
Will nere wayt on him well.  I am usd to undresse him
When he’s to goe to bed, and then read to him
Untill he be a sleepe, and then pray by him: 
I will not leave him.

Bred.  Why, thou shalt not, Boy.  Goe with thy father.

Boy.  You are a good Lord,
Indeed I love you for’t and will pray for you. 
Come, father; now I must goe too, I care not. 
While I am with you, you shall have no hurt,
Ile be your warrant.

Leid.  I have lost myself, But something I shall doe.

[Exeunt Leid., Boy, Guard.

Or.  ’Tis time to rise; And, if your Lordshipps please, we will defer Our other busines to an other sitting.

Vand.  In the meane time wee’ll use all honest meanes To sound the depth of this Confederacie, In which Heaven’s hand direct us and assist us.

[Exeunt.

SCAENA 3.

    Enter 2 Captaines.[172]

1 Cap.  This is a strange cutting time.

2 Cap.  Let ’em cutt deep enough, They will doe no great cure els.  I wonder strangely They carry such a gentle hand on Leidenberch That any frends come to him.

1 Cap.  ’Has confest much, Beleeve it, and so far they feare him not, They would be els more circumspect.

2 Cap.  Pray ye, tell me, Is there no further newes of those are fledd,—­ I meane those fellow Instruments?

1 Cap.  None as yet,—­
At least divulgd abroad.  But certenly
The wise States are not idle, neither at this time
Do’s it concerne their safeties.  We shall heare shortly
More of theis monsters.

2 Cap.  Let’s to dynner, Sir; There we shall heare more newes.

1 Cap.  Ile beare ye companie.

[Exeunt.

SCAENA 4.

Enter Barnavelt & Provost.

Bar.  And how doth he take his imprisonment, Mr. Provost?

Pro.  A litle discontent, and’t please your Lordship, And sad as men confind.

Bar.  He does not talke much?

Pro.  Litle or nothing, Sir.

Bar.  Nor wrighte?

Pro.  Not any thing, Yet I have charge to give him those free uses.

Bar.  Doe you keep him close?

Pro.  Not so close, and’t like your Lordship, But you may see and speake with him.