Enter [103] Friar Jacomo and Friar Barnardine.
F. Jac. O brother, brother, all the nuns are sick, And physic will not help them: they must die.
F. Barn. The abbess sent for me to be confessed: O, what a sad confession will there be!
F. Jac. And so did fair Maria send for me: I'll to her lodging: hereabouts she lies. [Exit.
Enter Abigail.
F. Barn. What, all dead, save only Abigail?
Abig. And I shall die too, for I feel death coming. Where is the friar that conversed with me.
F. Barn. O, he is gone to see the other nuns.10
Abig. I sent for him, but seeing you are come, Be you my ghostly father: and first know, That in this house I lived religiously, Chaste, and devout, much sorrowing for my sins, But ere I came——
F. Barn. What then?