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I will not hence, and leave my husband here;

And ill it doth beseem your holiness

To separate the husband and the wife.

Abb.

Be quiet and depart, thou shalt not have him.

[Exit.]

Luc.

Complain unto the Duke of this indignity.

Adr.

Come go: I will fall prostrate at his feet,

And never rise until my tears and prayers

Have won his Grace to come in person hither,

And take perforce my husband from the Abbess.

[2. E.] Mer.

By this I think the dial points at five.

Anon I’m sure the Duke himself in person

Comes this way to the melancholy vale,

The place of [death] and sorry execution,

Behind the ditches of the abbey here.

Ang.

Upon what cause?

[2. E.] Mer.

To see a reverent Syracusian merchant,

Who put unluckily into this bay

Against the laws and statutes of this town,

Beheaded publicly for his offense.

Ang.

See where they come, we will behold his death.

Luc.

Kneel to the Duke before he pass the abbey.

Enter the Duke of Ephesus [attended] and [Egeon] the merchant of Syracuse, bare-head, with the Headsman and other Officers.