About midnight
Stay here a while -LRB- ye Gentlemen -RRB- ye I say , that pursue the secrete stelths of loue , neuer put any great trust in fortune , which seldome kepeth hir promise with you . Ye had neede therfore to take goode heede , least ye be surprysed in the place , wher priuily you giue the assault , and in the acte wherein ye desire the assistance of none . See the barbarous cruelty of a Lieutenant , which loued rather to kill his corriual in his cold bloud , than otherwise to be reuenged , when he saw him a bed with his Wife , purposely that the example of his fury myght be the better knowne , and the secret sclander more euident , from the roote whereof did spryng an infinite number of Murders and mischiefs . About midnight then , when all thinges were at rest vnder the darke silence of the nyght , the Lieutenant came to the Chamber of the Lord Nicholas , accompanied with the most part of the Watch , and hauyng stopt vp the yeoman of hys Chaumber , hee so dressed the Companion of hys Bedde , as for the first proofe of his courtesie , he caused hys Membres and priuy partes to be cut of , saying vnto him with cruell disdayne : `` Thou shalt not henceforth -LRB- wycked wretch -RRB- weld this launce into the rest , thereby to batter the honour of an honester man than thy self . '' Then lanching his stomacke with a piercing blade , he tare the heart out of his belly , saying : `` Is this the trayterous Heart that hath framed the plot and deuysed the enterprise of my shame , to make this infamous villaine without Life , and his renoume without prayse ? '' And not content with this Cruelty , he wreakt the like vpon the remnaunt of his body , that sometimes the runnagate Medea did vpon hir innocent brother , to saue the Lyfe of hir selfe , and of hir friend Iason . For she cut him into an hundred thousand pieces , gyuing to euery Membre of the poore murdred soule hir word of mockery and contempt .