Wife.  For neither, Sir; I came to see you.

Pro.  Home!  This is no place for women.  To your Gossips!  This burthen would become a Chamber better.

Wife.  ’Tis a faire Peare.

Prov.  You long for’t:  pray you take it,
You are priviledgd now to beg.—­Ha! charmes in’t? stay,
Give mee’t.  I would not for a thousand dollars
This had byn undiscoverd.  Pray you goe home;
At night ile see you.

Wife.  You know my obedience And I must practise it.

Prov.  Make out for the fellow
That came with this device.  ’Twas queintly carried: 
The stalke pluckt cleanly out, and in the quill
This scroll conveyd.  What ere it be the Prince
Shall instantly peruse it.

    Enter Orange, Wm., Vandort, Bredero.

Or.  How came you by this?

Prov.  I intercepted it in a dish of Peares Brought by a man of Barnavelts, but sent to him From some of better ranck.

Or.  See what is written here,—­ ‘You have frends left and therefore, Sir, dispaire not.’

Vand.  ’Tis this that feeds his Insolence, theis are they
That, when they should have paid their prairs for him
As for a guilty man, adoarnd his house
In the dispight of us and of our Justice.

Bred.  But such shall find their flattering breath but makes The fire, our Cuntries safetie byds us cherish, To burne with greater heate.

Vand.  And so consume him.

Or.  The freedom of our goverment, and our honours,
And what we dare doe now lies at the stake. 
The better part of all the christian world
Marks our proceedings, and it wilbe said,
Yf having the Conspirators in our powre
We sentence none of them, being convincd, too,
Of fowre and thirtie Articles and each treason,
’Tis don for feare.  Then, to affright the rest,
I hold it fitt that Barnavelt, one that has
Most frends and meanes to hurt, and will fall therefore
With greater terror, should receive his Sentence,
Then dye as he deserves.  For Modesbargen
And Hogerbeets we shall find fitt time to
Thinck of them hereafter.

Bred.  Let him be sent for.

Vand.  In the meane time ’tis fit we should give hearing To the French Embassadors, who, I know, come now To mediat for him.

Bred.  Wayt upon them in:  Their Propositions shalbe answeard freely, And by such men as are their frends, not Servants.

Enter Boisise, Morier, Wife, Daughter, Attendants.

Boi[202].  We will plead for him and prevaile, we doubt not. 
Take comfort therefore, Madam, and a while,
Since you are not to be admitted here,
Leave us to our endeavors.

Wife.  Heaven direct And prosper theis your charitable traviles.

[Exeunt Wife & Daughter.