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Let's to dynner, Sir; There we shall heare more newes. 1 Cap. Ile beare ye companie. Enter Barnavelt & Provost. Bar. And how doth he take his imprisonment, Mr. Provost? Pro. A litle discontent, and't please your Lordship, And sad as men confind. Bar. He does not talke much? Pro. Litle or nothing, Sir. Bar. Nor wrighte? Pro. Not any thing, Yet I have charge to give him those free uses. Bar.
Away, good pilchers! Now blow your matches and stand fast: he comes here. 1 Cap. And now bend all your pikes. Enter Provost, Barnavelt, Lords, Guard. Prov. Cleere all the Skaffold; Let no more into th'Court; we are choakd with people. Bar. You are curteous in your preparations, gentlemen, 1 Lord. You must ascend, Sir. Bar. Feareles I will, my lords, And, what you can inflict, as feareles suffer.
The swelling, accumulative character of the eloquence is another proof; for Fletcher's effects are gained not by a few sharp strokes, but by constant iteration, each succeeding line strengthening the preceding until at last we are fronted by a column of very formidable strength. Let us take another extract from the same scene: "Barnavelt.
Prov. Roome for the Prisoner! Provost and Guard, with Barnavelt. Or. The world shall know that what's iust we dare doe. Vand. Nor shall the desperate act of Leidenberch Delude what we determind. Let his Coffin Be therefore hangd up on the publique Gallowes. Th'Executioners like hungry vultures Have smelld out their imployment. Or.
The Bree for his Excellencie and the Heeres That love him not. Wife. Vand. Were he ten times more popular, his frends And flatterers Centuple, the Sword of Justice Shall fall on him as on the meanest man Since he deserves it. Enter Provost, Captaines & Guard with Barnavelt. Pro. Make roome for the Prisoner. Bar.
This conclusion, I say, weakens the dramatic power of the close, but it does not prevent Sir John Barnavelt from occupying a high place among our dramatic treasures. ST. PETERSBURG, New Year's Eve, 1882. Reprinted in Mrs. Bray's Tamar and the Tavy. Printed in The Court and Times uf Charles the First, &c.
The Prince of Orange, Most thinck, affects him not, nor he the Prince. That either of their angry wills should prove A lawful act to ruyn one another, And not a medium of more open Justice, More equall and more honorable, step in, Man had no powre to stand nor fall with honour. If he be falce, honest and upright proofes Will ripen the Imposture. Enter Barnavelt and his Son. Vand.
Modesbargens flight assures him one, nor is The pentionary of Roterdam Grotius, Free from suspition: from Utrecht I have brought The Secretarie Leidenberge, who hath Confest alredy something that will give us Light to find out the rest. I would end here And leave out Barnavelt. Bred. If he be guiltie He's to be nam'd and punishd with the rest. Vand.
You shall have gold to furnish you, and this don Propose your owne rewards, they shalbe graunted. Cap. Or. Doe, and prosper. Will. What will you do with Leidenberge? Bred. Let him be Kept safe a while: for Barnavelt, till we have Some certaine proofes against him, I hold fitt He have his libertie, but be suspended From any place or voice in Court untill His guilt or inocence appeere. Vand.
Oh, my Lords, What will you doe? For, be but you yourselves, this Prince of Orange Is but as Barnavelt, a Servant to Your Lordships and the State; like me maintaind; The pomp he keepes, at your charge: will you then Wayt his prowd pleasure, and in that confes, By daring to doe nothing, that he knowes not You have no absolute powre? Van. I never sawe The Advocate so mov'd. Bar.
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