[♦] How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands

[270] Of this most grievous guilty murder done!

Re-enter First Murderer.

[♦] First Murd. How now! what mean’st thou, that thou help’st me not?

[♦] By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!

Sec. Murd. I would he knew that I had saved his brother!

Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;

275 For I repent me that the duke is slain. [Exit.

First Murd. So do not I: go, coward as thou art.

[♦] Now must I hide his body in some hole,