The Works of Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta
Act:
3
Scene:
6
2. Fryar
The Abbasse sent for me to be confest:
Oh what a sad confession will there be?
2. Fryar
What, all dead save onely Abigall?
2. Fryar
Oh he is gone to see the other Nuns.
2. Fryar
What then?
2. Fryar
Yes, what of them?
2. Fryar
So, say how was their end?
2. Fryar
Oh monstrous villany.
2. Fryar
Know that Confession must not be reveal'd,
The Canon Law forbids it, and the Priest
That makes it knowne, being degraded first,
Shall be condemn'd, and then sent to the fire.
2. Fryar
I, and a Virgin too, that grieves me most:
But I must to the Jew and exclaime on him,
And make him stand in feare of me.
Enter 1. Fryar.
2. Fryar.
First helpe to bury this, then goe with me
And helpe me to exclaime against the Jew.
2. Fryar
A thing that makes me tremble to unfold.
2. Fryar
No, but a worse thing: 'twas told me in shrift,
Thou know'st 'tis death and if it be reveal'd.
Come let's away.
