14901500Snakes in my hart bloud warmd, that sting my hart,

14911501Three Iudasses, each one thrise worse then Iudas,

14921502Would they make peace? terrible hel,

14931503Make war vpon their spotted soules for this.

14941504Scro. Sweet loue I see changing his property,

14951505Turnes to the sowrest and most deadly hate,

14961506Againe, vncurse their soules, their peace is made

14971507With heads and not with hands, those whom you curse

14981508Haue felt the worst of deathes destroying wound,

14991509And lie full low grau'd in the hollow ground.

15001510Aum. Is Bushie, Greene, and the Earle of Wiltshire dead.

15021511Scro. I all of them at Bristow lost their heads.

15031512Aum. Where is the Duke my father with his power?

15041513King No matter where, of comfort no man speake:

15051514Lets talke of graues, of wormes, and Epitaphs,

15061515Make dust our paper, and with rainy eies,

15071516Write sorrow on the bosome of the earth.

15081517Lets choose executors and talke of wils:

15091518And yet not so, for what can we bequeath,

15101519Saue our deposed bodies to the ground?

15111520Our landes, our liues, and all are Bullingbrookes.

15121521And nothing can we call our owne, but death:

15131522And that small modle of the barren earth,

15141523Which serues as paste, and couer to our bones,

15151524For Gods sake let vs sit vpon the ground,

15161525And tell sad stories of the death of Kings,

15171526How some haue beene deposd, some slaine in warre,

15181527Some haunted by the ghosts they haue deposed,

15191528Some poisoned by their wiues, some sleeping kild;

15201529All murthered, for within the hollow crowne

15211530That roundes the mortall temples of a king,

15221531Keepes death his court, and there the antique sits,

15231532Scofing his state and grinning at his pompe,

15241533Allowing him a breath, a litle sceane,

15251534To monarchise be feard, and kil with lookes,

15261535Infusing him with selfe and vaine conceit,

15271536As if this flesh which wals about our life,

15281537Were brasse impregnable: and humord thus,