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Scæa. 5a.

Enter Grotius: & Hogerbeets.
Gro.
They haue arrested him? Hogerbeets?

Hog.
yes
that you all know Grotius they did at Vtrich
but since they haue with more severitie
and scorne of vs, proceeded: Monsieur Barnauelt
walkes with a thousand eies, and guards vpon him,
and has at best a painted libertie.
th'Appollogie he wroat, so poorely raild at,
+ (for answeard at no part, a man can call it)
and all his life, and Actions so detracted
that he, as I am certenly informd
lookes every howre for worsse.

Gro.
Come, Come, they dare not:
or if they should, I will not suffer it
I that haue without dread, ever maintaind
the freedom I was borne to, against all
that ever haue provoakd me, will not feare
what this old Graue, or the new Prince of Orange
dare vndertake beyond this, but will rise vp
and if he lay his handes on Barnauelt,
his Court, our Guift, and where the generall States
or equalls sitt, ile fry about their eares,
and quench it in their blood: what now I speake
againe ile speak alowd: let who will tell it,
I neuer will fly from it

Hog.
What you purpose,
I will not fly from.

Gro.
back you then to Leyden,
ile keep at Roterdam; there if he fetch me
[Taper:—]/ [pen & inke Table]
ile nere repent, whatever can fall on me.

—Exeunt