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      Here Enter the Mayor, Mosbie, Alice, Franklin, Michael and susan.

      MAYOR

      See, mistress Arden, where your husband lies;

      Confess this foul fault and be penitent.

      ALICE

      Arden, sweet husband, what shall I say?

      The more I sound his name, the more he bleeds;

      This blood condemns me, and in gushing forth

      Speaks as it falls and asks me why I did it.

      Forgive me, Arden: I repent me now,

      And, would my death save thine, thou shouldst not die.

      Rise up, sweet Arden, and enjoy thy love,

      And frown not on me when we meet in heaven:

      In heaven I’ll love thee, though on earth I did not.

      MAYOR

      Say, Mosbie, what made thee murder him?

      FRANKLIN

      Study not for an answer; look not down:

      His purse and girdle found at thy bed’s head

      Witness sufficiently thou didst the deed;

      MOSBIE

      I hired Black Will and Shakebag, ruffians both,

      And they and I have done this murderous deed.

      But wherefore stay we?

      Come and bear me hence.

      Rank. Those ruffians shall not escape;

      I will up to London. And get the councilhs warrant

      To apprehend them. (Exeunt. Here enters WILL

      WILL

      Shakebag, I hear, hath taken sanctuary,

      But I am so pursued with hues and cries

      For petty robberies that I have done,

      That I can come unto no sanctuary.

      Therefore must I in some oyster boat

      At last be fain to go a board some hoy,

      And so to flushing. There is no staying here.

      At sittingburgh the watch was like to take me,

      And had not I with my buckler covered my head,

      And run full blank at all adventures,

      I am sure I had ne’er gone further than that place,

      For the constable had twenty warrants to apprehend me,

      Besides that, I robbed him and his man once at gadshill.

      Farewell, england, I’ll to flushing now. (Exit WILL

      (here Enter the Mayor, Mosbie, Alice, Michael, Susan, and BRADSHAW

      MAYOR

      Come, make haste and bring away the prisoners.

      BRADSHAW

      Mistress Arden, you are now going to god,

      And I am by the law condemned to die

      About a letter I brought from master GREENE

      I pray you, mistress Arden, speak the truth:

      Was I ever privy to your intent or no.

      ALICE

      What should I say?

      You brought me such a letter,

      But I dare swear thou knewest not the contents.

      Leave now to trouble me with worldly things,

      And let me meditate upon my saviour Christ,

      Whose blood must save me for the blood I shed.

      MOSBIE

      How long shall I live in this hell of grief?

      Convey me from the presence of that strumpet.

      ALICE

      Ah but for thee I had never been strumpet.

      What cannot oaths and protestations do,

      When men have opportunity to woo?

      But now I find it and repent too late.

      SUSAN

      Ah, gentle brother, wherefore should I die?

      I knew not of it till the deed was done.

      MOSBIE

      For thee I mourn more than for myself;

      But let it suffice, I cannot save thee now.

      MICHAEL

      And if your brother and my mistress

      MOSBIE

      Fie upon women! This shall be my song;

      But bear me hence, for I have lived too long.

      SUSAN

      Seeing no hope on earth, in heaven is my hope.

      MICHAEL

      Faith, I care not, seeing I die with susan.

      BRADSHAW

      My blood be on his head that gave the sentence.

      MAYOR

      To speedy execution with them all! (Exeunt.

      (here enters FRANKLIN

      FRANKLIN

      Thus have you seen the truth of Arden’s death.

      As for the ruffians, Shakebag and Black Will,

      The one took sanctuary, and, being sent for out,

      Was murdered in southwark as he passed

      To greenwich, where the lord protector lay.

      Black Will was burned in flushing on a stage;

      Greene was hanged at osbridge in kent;

      The painter fled and how he died we know not.

      But this above the rest is to be noted:

      Arden lay murdered in that plot of ground

      Which he by force and violence held from Reede;

      And in the grass his body’s print was seen

      Two years and more after the deed was done.

      Gentlemen, we hope you’ll pardon this naked tragedy,

      Wherein no filed points are foisted in

      To make it gracious to the ear or eye;

      For simple truth is gracious enough,

      And needs no other points of glosing stuff.

       THE END

      A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY

       Table of Contents

      By William Shakespeare

       ALL’S ONE, OR, ONE OF THE FOUR PLAYS IN ONE, CALLED A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY AS IT WAS PLAYED BY THE KING’S MAJESTY’S PLAYERS.

       Dramatis Personae.

       Husband.

       Master of a College.

       Knight, a Justice of Peace.

       Oliver,

       Ralph,

       Samuel, servingmen.

       Other Servants, and Officers.

      

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