A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Unknown
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Untimely murthered by your lucklesse hand?
_Mer_. To the lowe roome, where we will cover it, With Fagots, till the evening doe approche: In the meane time I will bethinke my selfe, How I may best convey it foorth of doores; For if we keepe it longer in the house, The savour will be felt throughout the streete, Which will betray us to destruction. Oh what a horror brings this beastlinesse, This chiefe of sinnes, this self-accusing crime Of murther! now I shame to know my selfe, That am estrang'd so much from that I was, True, harmlesse, honest, full of curtesie, Now false, deceitfull, full of injurie. Hould thou his heeles, ile bear his wounded head: Would he did live, so I myself were dead! [_Bring down the body, and cover it over with Faggots himselfe_. _Rach_. Those little stickes, do hide the murthred course, But stickes, nor ought besides, can hide the sinne. He sits on high, whose quick all-seeing eye, Cannot be blinded by mans subtilties. _Mer_. Look every where, can you discerne him now? _Rach_. Not with mine eye, but with my heart I can. _Mer_. That is because thou knowest I laide him there: |
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