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Show - 1M BO f N A * ~ T T~ ,<iUr. A\A rhis Aft> Shall Murder, and of F,fe. And willyoi, Ua X ' ^ * H ' * _ & £ i - » hy this one Minute vour own Son, and lucn a son, &***** • t which he toys behind him. a c o m m o n Father $*' r^rS^fi ttou livft but by the Breath I gave thee. Didft thou J ^ j R S E i l £ 3 t a Life; and offer'dft tomake known m y 1 ^ ^%te»to£SLr'd thy Innocence, who bafely murder* him ? But WVfds arenecdlefs: Sir, you lee Evidence before yobr &£**I ^Witnefs on m y Oath M Heaven, how clear your Son how orimm i, th* Man. ri/. TwrmW cou d do nothing but what was Noble. Beam W e know his Native Worth. / r His Worth I Behold it on the Murderers Hand; a Robber firft, he took Decrees in Mifchief, and grew to what he is. Know you that Diamond, and whofe it was? See if he dares deny !t? Towerf. Sir, 'twas your Son's, that freely I acknowledge; but how I came >YHvm. No, 'tis too much ; I'll hear no more. _$/? fhe Devil of jealoufie, and that of Avarice, both I believe pofieft him 5 or your Son was innocently talking w^th his Wife, and he perhaps had found 'em • this I guefs, but faw it not, becaufe I came too late; I only viewd the [weet Youth, juft expiring, and Towerfon (looping down to take the Ring: She kneeling by to help hln>; when he faw me, he wou'd, you may be fure, have fent me after, becaufe I was a Witnefs of the Faft : This on m y Soul is true. Towerf. Falfe as that Soul, each Word, each Syllable! The Ring he put4ipon my Hand this Night, when in this W o o d unknown, and near this Place, without m y timely Help he had been flain. Fife. See this unlikely Story! What Enemies had he? who fhou'd affault him? Or is it probable that very Man, who aftually did kill him afterwards, fhou'd fave his Life fo little time before? Tfab. Bafe Man, thou know'ft the Reafon of his Death ! He had committed on m y Perfon, Sir, an impious Rape; firft ty'd me to that Tree, and there m y Husband found me; whole Revenge was fuch, as Heaven and Earth will juftifie. Harm. I know not what Heaven will, but Earth fhall not. Beam. Her Story carries fuch a Face of Truth, ye cannot but believe it. Coll. The other a malicious, ill-patch'd Lie. Fife. Yes, you are proper Judges of his Crime, who, with the reft of your Accomplices, your Countrymen, and Towerfon the Chief, whom we too kindly us'd, wou'd have furprizdthe Fort, and made us Slaves; that fhall beprov'd, more foon than you imagine; I found it out this Evening. Towerf Sure the Devil has lent thee all his Stock of Falfhood, and muft be fore'd hereafter to tell Truth. Beam. Sir, 'tis impoffible you fhou'd believe it. Harm. Seize 'email. CoH. You cannot be fo bafe. Harm. I'll be fo juft, till I can hear your Plea againft this Plot 5 which if notprov'd, and fully, you are quit; meantime, Refiftance is but vain. Towerf Provided that we may have equal Hearing, I am content to yield, though, I declare, you have no Power to judge us. ' [Gives his Sword. Beam. Barb'rous, ungrateful Dutch I Harm. See 'em convey'd apart to feveral Prifons, left they combine to forge fofhe fpecious Lie in their Excufe; Let Towerfon and that W o m a n too be parted Tfab. Was ever fuch a Divorce made on a Bridal Night! But we before were parted ne'er to meet. Farewel, farewel, m y laft and only Love! m Towerf Curfe on m y fond Credulity, to think there cou'd be Faith or Honour in the Dutch: Farewel, m y Tfabinda I and farewel, m y much wrong'd Countrymen ! Remember yet that no unmanl y Weaknefs in your Sufferings diferac-the Native Honour of our Ifle. & v For you I mourn, Grief for my felf were vain; I have loft all, and now wou'd lofe my Pain. r Exeunt. ACT. AMBOYNA 575 A C T V. S C E N E I. A Table fet out. Enter Harman, Fifcal, Van Herring, and two Dutchmen: they fit Boy Waiters, and Guards. Harm. A yf V Sorrow cannot be fo foon digeftea, for lofing of a Son I lov'd fo . 1 V 1 weh1; but, I confider, great Advantages muft with fome Lofs be bought: As this rich Trade which I this Day have purchas'd with his Death < yet let me be reveng'd, and I fhall ftill live on, and eat, and drink down all m y Griefs. Now to the Matter, Fifcal. Fife. Since we may freely fpeak among our felves ; All I have faid of Towerfon was moft falfe. You were confenting, Sir, as well as I, that Perez fhou'd be hir'd to murder him; which he refufing, when he was engag'd, 'tis dangerous to let him longer live. Van Her. Difpatch him ! He will be a Ihrewd Witnefs againft us, if he re turn to Europe. Fife. I have thought better, ifyou pleafe, to kill him, by a Form of Law, as Acceuary to the Englifh Plot, which I have long been forging. Harm. Send one to feize him ftraight. [Exit a Meffenger. But what you faid, that Towerfon was guiltlefs of m y Son's Death, I eafily believe ; and ne'er thought otherwife, though I diflembled. Van. Her. Nor I; but 'twas well done to feign that Story. 1 Dutch. The true one was too foul. 2 Dutch. And afterwards to draw the Englifej off from his Concernment, to their own, I think 'twas rarely manag'd that. Harmon. So far, 'twas well; now to proceed, for I would gladly know whether the Grounds are plaufible enough, of this pretended Plot. Fife. With Favour of this honourable Court, give me but leave to fmooth the W a y before you. Some two or three Nights fince, (it matters not;).a Japon Soldier, under Captain Perez, came to a Centinel upon the Guard, and, in familiar Talk, did queftion him about this Caftle, of its Strength, and bow he thought it might be taken 5 this Difcourfe the other told me early the next- Morning : I thereupon did illiie private Order to rack the Japonnefi, my felf being prefent. Harm. But what's this to the Englifej? Fife You fhall hear: I ask'd him, when his Pains were ftrongeft on him, it Towerfon, or the Englifi) Faftory, had never hir'd him to betray the Fort; he anfwer'd, (as 'twas true) they never had : Nor was his Meamngmore in that Difcourfe, than, as a Soldier, to inform himfelf, and fo to pafs the time. M^taSSSTtoThim I Was certainly inform'd the Englifej had W & ^ r a r i i *fce frankly woa'd ™^\^?g£ C^» ffi^ «** this Action, to put them * **2*^ his Confeffion, alfof 'em fhall die, even to their General 2* erf°Harm. He ftands convicTed of another Crime, for which he is to fuffer. Fife. This does well, to help *thougi. ^ tf he For Towerfon is here a Perfon p u b l ^ ™ W * ™ J gjm __J Amboyna. fhou'd appeal, as fure he ^J°£™£™R*tfi£Wt the Nations Van Her. 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