BALTHAZAR
So. And what is the dish I must dress?
QUEEN
Only the cutting off a pair of lives.
BALTHAZAR
I love no red-wine healths.
QUEEN
The King commands it, you are but executioner.
BALTHAZAR The hang-man? An office that will hold so long as hemp lasts. Why do not you beg the office, Sir?
QUEEN
Thy victories in field never did crown thee
As this one Act shall.
BALTHAZAR
Prove but that, 'tis done.
QUEEN
Follow him close, he's yielding.
MALATESTE
Thou shalt be called thy Country's Patriot,
For quenching out a fire now newly kindling
In factious bosoms, and shalt thereby save
More Noble Spaniards lives, than thou slew Moors.
QUEEN
Art thou yet converted?