I know it. Ye need but slay.
[Exit.

Enter FRANCESCO

FRANCESCO (singing)

Love and night are life and light;
Sleep and wine and song
Speed and slay the halting day
Ere it live too long.

FIRST ASSASSIN

That shalt not thou. Sing, whosoe'er thou be,
Thy next of songs to Satan.
[They stab him.

FRANCESCO

Dogs! Ye dare?
God! Pity me! God! [Dies.

SECOND ASSASSIN

God receive his soul!
This was a Christian: many a man I have slain
Died with all hell between his lips.

FIRST ASSASSIN