SCAENA 5.
Enter Grotius & Hogerbeets.
Gro. They have arrested him, Hogerbeets?
Hog. Yes;
That you all know, Grotius, they did at Utrich,
But since they have with more severitie
And scorne of us proceeded. Monsieur Barnavelt
Walkes with a thousand eies and guards upon him,
And has at best a painted libertie;
Th'Appollogie he wroat so poorely raild at,
(For answeard at no part a man can call it)
And all his life and Actions so detracted,
That he, as I am certenly informed,
Lookes every howre for worsse.
Gro. Come, come, they dare not,
Or if they should I will not suffer it;
I that have without dread ever maintaind
The freedom I was borne to, against all
That ever have provoakd me, will not feare
What this old Grave or the new Prince of Orange
Dare undertake beyond this, but will rise up
And if he lay his hands on Barnavelt,
His Court, our Guift, and where the generall States
Our equalls sit ile fry[175] about their eares
And quench it in their blood. What now I speake
Againe ile speake alowd; let who will tell it,
I never will fly from it.
Hog. What you purpose I will not fly from.
Gro. Back you then to Leyden, Ile keep at Roterdam: there if he fetch me Ile nere repent whatever can fall on me.
[Exeunt.
SCAENA 6.
Enter Leidenberch & Boy.