But here Bedingfield enters hastily to announce the escape of Suffolk and his having “joined with Wyatt.”
“Mary. Suffolk fled? Jane’s father?
Henceforth let justice rule. Farewell, weak pity!
We cannot, Jane, both live: why, then, die thou!”
Yet, even after this, her good genius, Fakenham, obtains from Mary a promise that Jane shall live “if she abjure her heresy.” It does not appear, however, that Fakenham had any further interview with Jane. It would have been useless, if he had; for when, just before her execution, Bedingfield says:
“At least, we may delay till the dean comes
To whisper spiritual comfort,”
Jane replies:
“Infinite
Is the Almighty’s goodness. In that only