has been done? Enter CALYMATH and BASSOES. CALYMATH. Come, my companion-bassoes:  see, I pray, How busy Barabas is there above To entertain us in his gallery:      Let us salute him.—Save thee, Barabas! BARABAS. Welcome, great Calymath! FERNEZE. How the slave jeers at him!           [Aside.]       BARABAS. Will't please thee, mighty Selim Calymath, To ascend our homely stairs? CALYMATH. Ay, Barabas.—      Come, bassoes, ascend. 204 FERNEZE. [coming forward] Stay, Calymath; For I will shew thee greater courtesy Than Barabas would have afforded thee. KNIGHT. [within] Sound a charge there!           [A charge sounded within:  FERNEZE cuts the cord; the floor of the gallery gives way, and BARABAS falls into a caldron placed in a pit. Enter KNIGHTS and MARTIN DEL BOSCO. 205 CALYMATH. How now! what means this? BARABAS. Help, help me, Christians, help! FERNEZE. See, Calymath! this was devis'd for thee. CALYMATH. Treason, treason! bassoes, fly! FERNEZE. No, Selim, do not fly:      See his end first, and fly then if thou canst. BARABAS. O, help me, Selim! help me, Christians! Governor, why stand you all so pitiless? FERNEZE. Should I in pity of thy plaints or thee, Accursed Barabas, base Jew, relent? No, thus I'll see thy treachery repaid, But wish thou hadst behav'd thee otherwise. BARABAS. You will not help me, then? FERNEZE. No, villain, no. BARABAS. And, villains, know you cannot help me now.—      Then, Barabas, breathe forth thy latest fate, And in the fury of thy torments strive To end thy life with resolution.—      Know, governor, 'twas I that slew thy son,—      I fram'd the challenge that did make them meet:      Know, Calymath, I aim'd thy overthrow:      And, had I but escap'd this stratagem, I would have brought confusion on you all, Damn'd Christian 206 dogs, and Turkish infidels! But now begins the extremity of heat To pinch me with intolerable pangs:      Die, life! fly, soul! tongue, curse thy fill, and die!           [Dies.]       CALYMATH. Tell me, you Christians, what doth this portend? FERNEZE. This train 207 he laid to have entrapp'd thy life; Now, Selim, note the unhallow'd deeds of Jews; Thus he determin'd to have handled thee, But I have rather chose to save thy life. CALYMATH. Was this the banquet he prepar'd for us? Let's hence, lest further mischief be pretended. 208 FERNEZE. Nay, Selim, stay; for, since we have thee here, We will not let thee part so suddenly:      Besides, if we should let thee go, all's one, For with thy galleys couldst thou not get hence, Without fresh 

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