SPIRIT.
Adsum.
M. JOURDAIN.
Asnath,
By the eternal God, whose name and power
Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;
For till thou speak thou shalt not pass from hence.
SPIRIT.
Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!
BOLINGBROKE.
[Reads.] First of the King: what shall of him become?
SPIRIT.
The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose,
But him outlive and die a violent death.
[As the Spirit speaks, Southwell writes the answer.]
BOLINGBROKE.
[Reads.] What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?
SPIRIT.
By water shall he die and take his end.
BOLINGBROKE.
[Reads.] What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?
SPIRIT.
Let him shun castles.
Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains
Than where castles mounted stand.
Have done, for more I hardly can endure.