[SCENE IV.]
Enter three neighbors knocking at Loneys doore: Loney comes.
1. Hoe, Maister Loney! here you any newes What is become of your Tennant Beech?
Lon. No truely, sir, not any newes at all.
2. What, hath the boy recovered any speach, To give us light of these suggestions That do arise upon this accident?
Lon. There is no hope he should recover speech; The wives do say he's ready now to leave This greevous world, full-fraught with treacherie.
3. Methinkes if Beech himselfe be innocent,
That then the murtherer should not dwell farre off;
The hammer that is sticking in his head,
Was borrowed of a Cutler dwelling by,
But he remembers not who borrowed it:
He is committed that did owe[33] the hammer,
But yet he standes uppon his innocence;
And Beeches absence causeth great suspition.
Lo. If Beech be faulty, as I do not thinke,
I never was so much deceiv'd before.
Oh had you knowne his conversation,
You would not have him in suspition.
3. Divels seeme Saints, and in these[34] hatefull times, Deceite can beare apparraunt signes of trueth, And vice beare shew of vertues excellence.
Enter the two Watermen.