First. And who's to bear
These demure hypocrites? You'd swear they came ...
Came ... just as we come!
[A Puritan enters hastily and without observing Strafford's Followers.
The Puritan. How goes on the work?
Has Pym....
A Follower of Strafford. The secret's out at last. Aha,
The carrion's scented! Welcome, crow the first!
Gorge merrily, you with the blinking eye!
"King Pym has fallen!"
The Puritan. Pym?
A Strafford. Pym!
A Presbyterian. Only Pym?
Many of Strafford's Followers. No, brother, not Pym only; Vane as well,
Rudyard as well, Hampden, St. John as well!
A Presbyterian. My mind misgives: can it be true?
[155] Another. Lost! Lost!