Jar. Ask him no questions, madam. This last misfortune has hurt his brain. A little time will give him patience.
SCENE VIII.
Enter Stukely.
Bev. Why is this villain here?
Stu. To give You liberty and safety. There's his discharge, madam. (Giving a paper to Mrs. Beverley) Let him begone this moment. The arrest last night was meant in friendship; but came too late.
Char. What mean you, Sir?
Stu. The arrest was too late, I say. I would have kept his hands from blood, but was too late.
Mrs. Bev. His hands from blood! Whose blood?—O, wretch! wretch!
Stu. From Lewson's blood.
Char. No, villain! Yet what of Lewson? Speak quickly!