BALT. [acting] Why, let him die! so love commaundeth me.
Yet grieve I that Erasto should so die.
HIERO. [acting] Erasto, Suleiman saluteth thee,
And lets thee wit by me his Highness' will,
Which is, thou should'st be thus employ'd.
Stabs him.
BEL. [acting] Ay, me, Erasto! See, Suleiman, Erasto's slain!
BALT. [acting] Yet liveth Suleiman to comfort thee.
Fair queen of beauty, let not favour die,
But with a gracious eye behold his grief,
That with Perseda's beauty is increas'd,
If by Perseda grief be not releas'd.
BEL. [acting] Tyrant, desist soliciting vain suits;
Relentless are mine ears to thy laments
As thy butcher is pitiless and base
Which seiz'd on my Erasto, harmless knight.
Yet by thy power thou thinkest to command,
And to thy power Perseda doth obey;
But, were she able, thus she would revenge
Thy treacheries on thee, ignoble prince;
Stabs him.
And on herself she would be thus revengd.
Stabs herself.
KING. Well said, old marshall! this was bravely done!