1 Serv.  Haste then away:  Things, once resolved, are ruined by delay.

[Exeunt.

ACT V. SCENE I.

The Scene lying in a Carrack.

Enter a Pirate and the Captain.

Pir.  Welcome a ship-board, captain; you staid long.

Capt.  No longer than was necessary for shifting trades; to change me from a robber to a pirate.

Pir.  There’s a fair change wrought in you since yesterday morning; then you talked of nothing but repentance, and amendment of life.

Capt.  ’Faith, I have considered better on’t:  for, conversing a whole day together with honest men, I found them all so poor and beggarly, that a civil person would be ashamed to be seen with them:—­but you come from Don Roderick’s cabin; what hopes have you of his life?

Pir.  No danger of it, only loss of blood had made him faint away; he called for you.

Capt.  Well, are his jewels and his plate brought in?

Pir.  They are.—­When hoist we sails?

Capt.  At the first break of day:  When we are got out clear, we’ll seize on Roderick and his men:  They are not many, but fear may make them desperate.

Pir.  We may take them, when they are laid to sleep.

Capt.  ’Tis well advised.

Pir.  I forgot to tell you, sir, that a little before Don Roderick was brought in, a company of gentlemen (pursued it seems by justice) procured our boat to row them hither.  Two of them carried a very fair lady betwixt them, who was either dead, or swooned.

Capt.  We’ll sell them altogether to the Turk,—­at least I’ll tell them so. [Aside.

Pir.  Pray, sir, let us reserve the lady to our own uses; it were a shame to good catholicks to give her up to infidels.

Capt.  Don Roderick’s door opens; I’ll speak to him.

The Scene draws, and discovers the Captains cabin; RODORICK on a bed, and two Servants by him.

Capt.  How is it with the brave Don Roderick?  Do you want any thing?

Rod.  I have too much
Of that I would not, love;
And what I would have, that I want, revenge. 
I must be set ashore.

Capt.  That you may, sir; But our own safety must be thought on first.

[One enters, and whispers the Captain.

Capt.  I come:—­Seignior, think you are lord here, and command all freely.

[Exeunt Captain and Pirates.

Rod.  He does well to bid me think so:  I am of opinion We are fallen into huckster’s hands.

1 Serv.  Indeed he talked suspiciously enough; He half denied to land us.

Rod.  These, Pedro, are your confiding men—­

2 Serv.  I think them still so.