- Viola and Wessex pass each other on horseback.
- She is on her way to church.
- Wessex tells her that a great playwright is dead.
- Viola thinks he is talking about Shakespeare, and she cries all over her horse.
- In shock, she stands in church, supported by her nurse.
- Will, still beaten and dirty from the duel the day before, goes into the church and points with ferocity at Wessex.
- "Spare me, dear ghost!" he shouts, and runs from the cathedral.
- Viola is thrilled Will is alive, and she runs to him.
- He confesses that he is responsible for Marlowe's death, because he told Wessex his name was Marlowe.
- Will and Viola lie by a river and chat.
- Speaking of lying, he says it is true that he has a wife.
- But what should it matter? Viola would never marry him anyway.
- She says she loves him. "Beyond poetry."
- He asks her not to marry Wessex, but she says she must, or the Queen will find out. Oh, that meddling Queen.