Act 5 — [Scene II.]

Bar. What, all alone? Well fare, sleepy drink. I’ll be reveng’d on this accursed town: For by my means Calymath shall enter in. I’ll help to slay their children and their wives, To fire the churches, pull their houses down, 5 Take my goods too, and seize upon my lands. I hope to see the governor a slave, And, rowing in a galley, whipt to death.

Caly. Whom have we there, a spy? Bar. Yes, my good lord, one that can spy a place10 Where you may enter, and surprise the town: My name is Barabas: I am a Jew. Caly. Art thou that Jew whose goods we heard were sold For tribute-money? Bar. The very same, my lord: And since that time they have hir’d a slave, my man,15 To accuse me of a thousand villanies: I was imprison’d, but escap’d their hands. Caly. Did’st break prison? Bar. No, no; I drank of poppy and cold mandrake juice;20 And being asleep, belike they thought me dead, And threw me o’er the walls: so, or how else, The Jew is here, and rests at your command. Caly. ’T was bravely done: but tell me, Barabas,24 Canst thou, as thou report’st, make Malta ours? Bar. Fear not, my lord, for here against the sluice[584] The rock is hollow, and of purpose digg’d To make a passage for the running streams And common channels of the city. Now, whilst you give assault unto the walls,30 I’ll lead five hundred soldiers through the vault, And rise with them i’ th’ middle of the town, Open the gates for you to enter in; And by this means the city is your own.34 Caly. If this be true, I’ll make thee governor. Bar. And if it be not true, then let me die. Caly. Thou’st doom’d thyself. Assault it presently.[585] Exeunt.