Scene + 

II + 

Barabas discovered rising. + 

Barabas + 

What, all alone? well fare, sleepy drink. + 

I’ll be revenged on this accursed town; + 

For by my means Calymath shall enter in. + 

I’ll help to slay their children and their wives, + 

To fire the churches, pull their houses down, + 

Take my goods too, and seize upon my lands. + 

I hope to see the governor a slave, + 

And, rowing in a galley, whipt to death. + 

Enter Calymath, Bassoes, and Turks. + 

Calymath + 

Whom have we there? a spy? + 

Barabas + 

Yes, my good lord, one that can spy a place + 

Where you may enter, and surprise the town: + 

My name is Barabas; I am a Jew. + 

Calymath + 

Art thou that Jew whose goods we heard were sold + 

For tribute-money? + 

Barabas + 

The very same, my lord: + 

And since that time they have hired a slave, my man, + 

To accuse me of a thousand villainies: + 

I was imprisoned, but ’scaped their hands. + 

Calymath + 

Did’st break prison? + 

Barabas + 

No, no: + 

I drank of poppy and cold mandrake juice: + 

And being asleep, belike they thought me dead, + 

And threw me o’er the walls: so, or how else, + 

The Jew is here, and rests at your command. + 

Calymath + 

’Twas bravely done: but tell me, Barabas, + 

Canst thou, as thou report’st, make Malta ours? + 

Barabas + 

Fear not, my lord; for here, against the sluice, + 

The rock is hollow, and of purpose digged, + 

To make a passage for the running streams + 

And common channels of the city. + 

Now, whilst you give assault unto the walls, + 

I’ll lead five hundred soldiers through the vault, + 

And rise with them i’ the middle of the town, + 

Open the gates for you to enter in; + 

And by this means the city is your own. + 

Calymath + 

If this be true, I’ll make thee governor. + 

Barabas + 

And, if it be not true, then let me die. + 

Calymath + 

Thou’st doomed thyself. Assault it presently. + 

Exeunt. + 