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Enter Hastings, a Pursuivant.

HAST INGS

 Go on before; I’ll talk with this good fellow.
                                                           Exeunt Stanley and Catesby.

 Well met, Hastings; how goes the world with thee?

H. PURSUIVANT

 The better that your lordship please to ask. [95]

HAST INGS

 I tell thee, man, ’tis better with me now
 Than when I met thee last, where now we meet:
 Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,
 By the suggestion of the Queen’s allies:
 But now I tell thee - keep it to thyself - [100]
 This day those enemies are put to death,
 And I in better state than e’er I was!

H. PURSUIVANT

 God hold it to your honour’s good content.

HAST INGS

 Gramercy, Hastings: there, drink that for me.

                                                        Throws him his purse.

H. PURSUIVANT                                           Exit.

 I thank your honour. [105]

                                       Enter a Priest.

PRIEST

 Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.

HAST INGS

 I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.
 I am in your debt for your last exercise:
 Come the next sabbath and I will content you.

                                                        He whispers in his ear.
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