Tragic Poem of Wold, The - Act 4, Scene 5
SCENE V. — A Room in Dunley Tower .
Lord D UNLEY and M ICHAEL Z EBRA .
Z EB . I've just seen Martin. 'Tis quite true. Thomas of Wold dies at noon to-morrow.
D UN . Why, then, we'll go to sleep
Z EN . Ay, and have pleasant dreams. Yet is there a snake in our flowers. That fellow Chayr's an imp for zeal. He'll be round the earth ere a man can take his first sleep. I fear him more than all the rest of them. He has admittance to Wold Castle to-morrow, and is sure to bring some device for the pardon or rescue of Lord Thomas. Martin has let me up to all this.
D UN . Why not cut off his coming?
Z EB . Martin and I have made bold to provide for it. Gort and Red Houndsley are to be in the Long Wood before day-break: They'll stop his coming, I warrant them. To take off the edge of murder, and make the thing like a mere bit of the war of the time, they are to have two or three regular soldiers with them. We are not bound to know that Chayr comes alone: He is Harry the Fourth's enemy — that's all we know. And thus we can look the Sixth Commandment in the face.
D UN . Now that we're accepted of Henry, and have gathered again a good force in our camp, who'll venture to wag the tongue against us?
Lord D UNLEY and M ICHAEL Z EBRA .
Z EB . I've just seen Martin. 'Tis quite true. Thomas of Wold dies at noon to-morrow.
D UN . Why, then, we'll go to sleep
Z EN . Ay, and have pleasant dreams. Yet is there a snake in our flowers. That fellow Chayr's an imp for zeal. He'll be round the earth ere a man can take his first sleep. I fear him more than all the rest of them. He has admittance to Wold Castle to-morrow, and is sure to bring some device for the pardon or rescue of Lord Thomas. Martin has let me up to all this.
D UN . Why not cut off his coming?
Z EB . Martin and I have made bold to provide for it. Gort and Red Houndsley are to be in the Long Wood before day-break: They'll stop his coming, I warrant them. To take off the edge of murder, and make the thing like a mere bit of the war of the time, they are to have two or three regular soldiers with them. We are not bound to know that Chayr comes alone: He is Harry the Fourth's enemy — that's all we know. And thus we can look the Sixth Commandment in the face.
D UN . Now that we're accepted of Henry, and have gathered again a good force in our camp, who'll venture to wag the tongue against us?
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