Sir John Oldcastle

by Shakespeare

ACT V. SCENE VI. The same. Before the Carrier’s Inn. Enter Watch.

FIRST WATCH.
First beset the house, before you begin the search.

SECOND WATCH.
Content; every man take a several place.

[Here is heard a great noise within. Keep, keep, strike him down there, down with him]

[Enter Constable with the Irish man in Harpoole’s apparel.]

CONSTABLE. Come, you villainous heretic, confess where your master is.

IRISHMAN.
Vat mester?

MAYOR. Vat mester, you counterfeit rebel? this shall not serve your turn.

IRISHMAN.
Be sent Patrick I ha no mester.

CONSTABLE. Where’s the lord Cobham, sir John Old-castle, that lately is escaped out of the Tower?

IRISHMAN.
Vat lort Cobham?

MAYOR.
You counterfeit, this shall not serve you; we’ll torture
you, we’ll make you to confess where that arch-heretic,
Lord Cobham, is: come, bind him fast.

IRISHMAN.
Ahone, ahone, ahone, a Cree!

CONSTABLE.
Ahone, you crafty rascal!

[Exeunt.]