I will be forced to hell like to myself.
Though you were legions of accursed spirits,
Thus would I fly among you.”[102:1]
He flings himself on the ground, foaming and biting the earth, only to be disarmed, bound and carried “to some dark room.” He will be
tended by physicians from Bedlam, who will try
“What art can do for his recovery.”[103:1]
The climax could hardly be more effective, were it not for Lord Lovell, who, before winding up the business of the play, thinks it necessary to point the moral in the most objectionable manner, only surpassed by Massinger himself elsewhere:
“Here is a precedent to teach wicked men,
That when they leave religion, and turn atheists,
Their own abilities leave them.”[103:2]