By my bare
honesty, heeres nothing but the bare emptie box! Were it not sin against
secrecie, I would say it were a peece of gentlemanlike knauery. I must goe to
Pedringano and tell him his pardon is in this boxe! Nay, I would haue sworne
it, had I not seene the contrary. I cannot choose but smile to thinke how the
villain wil flout the gallowes, scorne the audience, and descant on the
hangman, and all presuming of his pardon from hence. Wilt not be an odde
iest, for me to stand and grace euery iest he makes, pointing my figner at
this boxe, as who [should] say: "Mock on, heers thy warrant!" Ist not a
scuruie iest that a man should iest himselfe to death? Alas, poor Pedringano!
I am in a sorte sorie for thee, but, if I should be hanged with thee, I [could
not] weep.
Exit.
[ACT III. SCENE 6.]
[The court of justice.]
Enter HIERONIMO and the DEPUTIE.
HIERO. Thus must we toyle in others mens extreames
That know not how to rememdie our owne,
And doe them iusties, when vniustly we
For all our wrongs can compasse no redrese.
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