1 Burg.  Now for the Daunce, Boyes.

Wife.  Ther’s something for your paines:  drinck it, I pray.

2 Burg.  To a doyt, my vroa, to thy Lords health and thyne. 
The Bree[189] for his Excellencie and the Heeres
That love him not.  Ten hundred thousand blessings
To him and thee, my vroa.
          
                              [Daunce.

Wife.  I thanck you, frend.
          
                              [Exeunt.

SCAENA 5.

Enter Orange, Bredero, Vandort, William, Lords.
[Table.

Vand.  Let him be sent for presently:  he shall know,
                                 [A Bar brought in. 
Were he ten times more popular, his frends
And flatterers Centuple, the Sword of Justice
Shall fall on him as on the meanest man
Since he deserves it.

Enter Provost, Captaines & Guard with Barnavelt.

Pro.  Make roome for the Prisoner.

Bar.  My dutie to your Highnes and theis Princes
And an increase of wisdome to your Lordships,
For which the world admires you, I wish to you. 
Alas, what troble do’s a weake old man,
(That is, being out of all imployment, useles)
The bag of his deserts, too, cast behind you,
Impose upon this Senat?  My poore life
(Which others envy makes your Instruments
To fight against) will hardly be a Conquest
Worthie such great performers.

Vand.  Mounseiur Barnavelt,
’Tis no mans envy that hath brought us hether
To sitt as Judges on you, but your owne. 
Your owne late actions they have raisd a war
Against your former merritts, and defeated
What ever then was ranckt for good and great,
For which your Enemies, those that you thought frends,
Triumph, not wee.

Bre.  We rather wish you could Acquitt yourself of that for which we have Too evident prooffes, then labour to intrap you.

Bar.  I must beleeve and suffer whatsoever Your Lordships charge me with:  yet would gladly heare What my faultes are.

Vand.  Read the Confessions Of Leidenberch and Taurinus.

Bar. Leidenberch!

Officer reads.  First, that the Arminian faction (of which Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt, late Advocate of Holland and West Frizeland and Councellor of State, was without contradiction the head) had resolved and agreed to renounce and break the generallity and unitie of the State.

Secondly, Change and alter the Religion, and to that end, without the Consent of the Generall States, had raysed up and dispeirsed 3000 Arminian Soldiers.

Thirdly, To degrade the Prince of Orange.

Fourthly, To massacre the people of the Townes which were their greatest
Enemies or offered resistaunce.