Falconbridge Players

ecuted for his crimes against the state on September 27, 1471, a stirring moment dramatized by the playwright Thomas Heywood (probably):

Headsman. Gently, say’st thou ? thou wilt not use me so. But all is one for that. What strength thou hast. Throughout the whole proportion of thy limbs. Revoke it all into thy manly arms,
And spare me not. I am a gentleman,
A Neville, and a Falconbridge beside :
Then do thy work : thou mayst get credit by it ;
For, if thou dost not, I must tell thee plain,
I shall be passing angry when ’tis done. I warrant you, sir : none in the land shall do it better.