Isa. We will be for thee straight.
Give me your blessing, my Lord Cardinal.
Lord, I am well prepared:
Murder and lust, down with my ashes sink, 220
But, like ingrateful seed, perish in earth,
That you may never spring against my soul,
Like weeds to choke it in the heavenly harvest.
I fall to rise; mount to thy Maker, spirit!
Leave here thy body, death has her demerit.
[The executioner strikes off her head.
Car. A host of angels be thy convey [sic] hence.
Re-enter Medina.[313]
Med. To funeral with her body and this lord’s.
None here, I hope, can tax us of injustice:
She died deservedly, and may like fate
Attend all women so insatiate.
[Exeunt omnes. 230
[298] Old eds. “Enter Medina, the dead body of Guido alias Count Arsena, and Souldiours, &c.”
[299] A creature resembling a serpent. It was bred from a cock’s egg, and had a cock’s crest; the sight of it caused sudden death.—The term was frequently applied to a wanton woman.
[300] See note, vol. i. p. 189.
[301] Ed. 1613 “still.”