Act 5 - Scene 5

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_ ACT V - SCENE V

[Enter FERNEZE, [198] KNIGHTS, and MARTIN DEL BOSCO.]

[Footnote 198: Enter FERNEZE, &c.: Scene, a street.]

FERNEZE.
In this, my countrymen, be rul'd by me:
Have special care that no man sally forth
Till you shall hear a culverin discharg'd
By him that bears the linstock, [199] kindled thus;
Then issue out and come to rescue me,
For happily I shall be in distress,
Or you released of this servitude.

[Footnote 199: linstock: "i.e. the long match with which cannon are fired." STEEVENS (apud Dodsley's O. P.).]

FIRST KNIGHT.
Rather than thus to live as Turkish thralls,
What will we not adventure?

FERNEZE.
On, then; be gone.

KNIGHTS.
Farewell, grave governor.

[Exeunt, on one side, KNIGHTS and MARTIN DEL BOSCO;
on the other, FERNEZE.] _

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