STRUMBO.

O, alas, sir, ye are deceived. I am not Mercury;I am Strumbo.

HUMBER.

Give me some meat, villain; give me some meat, Or gainst this rock I'll dash thy cursed brains, And rent thy bowels with my bloody hands.

Give me some meat, villain; give me some meat!

STRUMBO.

By the faith of my body, good fellow, I had rather give an whole oxe than that thou shouldst serve me in that sort. Dash out my brains? O horrible! terrible! I think I have a quarry of stones in my pocket.

[Let him make as though he would give him some, and as he putteth out his hand, enter the ghost of Albanact, and strike him on the hand: and so Strumbo runs out, Humber following him. Exit.]

ALBANACT'S GHOST.

Lo, here the gift of fell ambition, Of usurpation and of treachery!

Lo, here the harms that wait upon all those That do intrude themselves in other's lands, Which are not under their dominion.

[Exit.]

ACT IV. SCENE III. A chamber in the Royal Palace.

[Enter Locrine alone.]

LOCRINE.

Seven years hath aged Corineius lived, To Locrine's grief, and fair Estrild's woe, And seven years more he hopeth yet to live.

Oh supreme Jove, annihilate this thought!

Should he enjoy the air's fruition?

Should he enjoy the benefit of life?