_The Servants enter again_.
_1 Serv_. They are all gone, we may return with safety:
Help me to bear the body to the town.
_2 Serv_. He stirs, and breathes a little; there may be
Some hope.
_3 Serv_. The town's far off, and the evening cold.
Let's carry him to the ship.
_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.
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