Chapter 20

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.]