injured servant tells the Master that the Husband is on his way to kill his third child. The Master and his two servants exit in hot pursuit. The Wife regains consciousness and laments the fate of her two children, who have apparently died. Two servants enter and tell the Wife that a doctor is waiting for her downstairs. Scene 6: A road just outside Yorkshire The Husband is thrown off his horse. The Master and his servants enter. They apprehend the Husband and make plans to take him to the Knight, who serves as the local Justice of the Peace. Scene 7: The Knight's house The Husband is brought as a prisoner to the Knight's house. The Knight asks the cause of the Husband's "monstrous cruelty." The Husband tells him that he killed his children so they would not become beggars. His only regret is that he was unable to kill his third child. The Knight is shocked by the Husband's stoicism. He sends him off to jail to await his trial, which will take place on the following day. Scene 8: Outside the Husband's house In the final scene, the Husband is brought in custody past his ancestral home. His Wife is recovering from her wounds, and the bodies of the murdered children are laid out for burial. The Husband is finally repentant and contrite over his actions... too late for any restoration. Escorted by officers, he departs for his trial. The Wife makes plans to beg for her Husband's pardon. The Master expresses his grief at the family tragedy. Notes References Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 Volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1923. Lake, David J. The Canon of Thomas Middleton's Plays. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1975. Logan, Terence P., and Denzell S. Smith, eds. The Popular School: A Survey and Bibliography of Recent Studies in English Renaissance Drama. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1965. Maxwell, Baldwin. Studies in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. New York, King's Crown Press, 1956. Tucker Brooke, C. F. The Shakespeare Apocrypha. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908. External links "A Yorkshire Tragedy" adapted at Wikiversity 'Plays of Uncertain Authorship Attributed to Shakespeare', from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21). Full modern-spelling edited text from Chris Cleary's Middleton page Transcript of the text in the Third Folio from the Internet Shakespeare Editions Old-spelling e-text, transcript of C.F. Tucker Brooke, ed.,