[SCENE I.]
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Enter Merrie and Rachell uncovering the head and legges.
Mer. I have bestow'd a watrie funerall On the halfe bodie of my butchered friend. The head and legges Ile leave in some darke place; I care not if they finde them yea or no.
Ra. Where do you meane to leave the head and legs?
Mer. In some darke place nere to Bainardes Castle.[31]
Ra. But doe it closelie that you be not seene; For all this while you are without suspect.
Mer. Take you no thought, Ile have a care of that; Onelie take heede you have a speciall care To make no shew of any discontent Nor use too many words to any one. [Puts on his Cloake; taketh up the bag. I will returne when I have left my loade. Be merrie, Rachell; halfe the feare is past. [Exit.
Ra. But I shall never thinke my selfe secure. This deede would trouble any quiet soule, To thinke thereof, much more to see it done; Such cruell deedes can never long be hid, Although we practice nere so cunningly. Let others open what I doe conceale; Lo he is my brother, I will cover it, And rather dye than have it spoken rife,— Lo where she goes, betrai'd her brothers life.
[Exit.