[To Claridiana.
Cla. Peace, seducer; I am branded in the forehead with your star-mark. May the stars drop upon thee, and with their sulphur vapours choke thee, ere thou come at the gallows! 181
Rog. Stretch not my patience, Mahomet.
Cla. Termagant,[324] that will stretch thy patience!
Rog. Had I known this I would have poison’d thee in the chalice
This morning, when we received the sacrament.[325]
Cla. Slave, know’st thou this? [showing the ring] ’tis an appendix to the letter;
But the greater temptation is hidden within.
I will scour thy gorge like a hawk:
Thou shalt swallow thine own stone in this letter,
Seal’d and delivered in the presence of——
[They bustle.
Duke. Keep them asunder; list to us, we command—
Cla. O violent villain! is not thy hand hereto, 192
And writ in blood to show thy raging lust?
Tha. Spice of a new halter, when you go a-ranging thus like devils, would you might burn[326] for’t as they do!