SCENE VI.

Enter [366] Guise, Anjou, Dumaine, Gonzago, Retes, Mountsorrell, and Soldiers, to the massacre.

Guise. Anjou, Dumaine, Gonzago, Retes, swear, By the argent crosses in your burgonets, To kill all that you suspect of heresy.

Dum. I swear by this, to be unmerciful.

Anj. I am disguis'd, and none knows who I am, And therefore mean to murder all I meet.

Gon. And so will I.

Retes. And I.

Guise. Away, then! break into the Admiral's house.

Retes. I, let the Admiral be first despatch'd.

Guise. The Admiral,10 Chief standard-bearer to the Lutherans, Shall in the entrance [367] of this massacre Be murder'd in his bed. Gonzago, conduct them thither; and then Beset his house, that not a man may live.