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The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

Act: 3 Scene: 6

And I shall dye too, for I feele death comming.

Where is the Fryar that converst with me?

I sent for him, but seeing you are come

Be you my ghostly father; and first know,

That in this house I liv'd religiously,

Chast, and devout, much sorrowing for my sinnes,

But e're I came—

I did offend high heaven so grievously,

As I am almost desperate for my sinnes:

And one offence torments me more then all.

You knew Mathias and Don Lodowicke?

My father did contract me to 'em both:

First to Don Lodowicke, him I never lov'd;

Mathias was the man that I held deare,

And for his sake did I become a Nunne.

Both jealous of my love, envied each other:

And by my father's practice, which is there

Set downe at large, the Gallants were both slaine.

To worke my peace, this I confesse to thee;

Reveale it not, for then my father dyes.

So I have heard; pray therefore keepe it close.

Death seizeth on my heart: ah gentle Fryar,

Convert my father that he may be sav'd,

And witnesse that I dye a Christian.