Shakespeare is walking home from the tavern, coming across the Old Man and Judith who criticizes Shakespeare. Shakespeare tells her that after temporarily abandoning her mother, he tried to love Judith with money, but ended up making her materialistic and crude. She leaves him, and as he sits alone, several dark figures run by backstage, and a gunshot is heard. The Old Woman comes to bring Shakespeare home.
Shakespeare is in bed, half delirious, with Judith and her mother knocking on the door calling for Shakespeare to let them in, until finally he slips his will to them under the door and they leave. The Son enters, and tells Shakespeare that in a scuffle with Combe's men he shot his father, the Old Man. Combe enters, and the Son hypocritcally accuses him of shooting the Old Man, and leaving Shakespeare to take poison pills he had taken from Jonson. Combe and the Son leave, unaware that Shakespeare is dying. Judith enters, and paying no care to her dying father, she scours the room looking for money or a second will.
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