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The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

Act: 5 Scene: 5

With free consent a hundred thousand pounds.

Oh excellent! here, hold thee, Barabas,

I trust thy word, take what I promis'd thee.

How the slave jeeres at him?

Stay, Calymath;

[Comes forward.]

For I will shew thee greater curtesie

Then Barabas would have affoorded thee.

See Calymath, this was devis'd for thee.

No, Selim, doe not flye;

See his end first, and flye then if thou canst.

Should I in pitty of thy plaints or thee,

Accursed Barabas ,base Jew,relent?

No, thus I'le see thy treachery repaid,

But wish thou hadst behav'd thee otherwise.

No, villaine, no.

This traine he laid to have intrap'd thy life;

Now Selim note the unhallowed deeds of Jewes:

Thus he determin'd to have handled thee,

But I have rather chose to save thy life.

Nay, Selim, stay, for since we have thee here,

We will not let thee part so suddenly:

Besides, if we should let thee goe, all's one,

For with thy Gallyes couldst thou not get hence,

Without fresh men to rigge and furnish them.

Why, hardst thou not the trumpet sound a charge?

Why, then the house was fir'd,

Blowne up, and all thy souldiers massacred.

A Jewes curtesie:

For he that did by treason worke our fall,

By treason hath delivered thee to us:

Know therefore, till thy father hath made good

The ruines done to Malta and to us,

Thou canst not part: for Malta shall be freed,

Or Selim ne're returne to Ottoman .

Content thee, Calymath,here thou must stay,

And live in Malta prisoner; for come all the world

To rescue thee, so will we guard us now,

As sooner shall they drinke the Ocean dry,

Then conquer Malta, or endanger us.

So march away, and let due praise be given

Neither to Fate nor Fortune, but to Heaven.