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The Two Noble Kinsmen - Act 1, scene 5
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The Two Noble Kinsmen - Act 1, scene 5Act 1, scene 5
Scene 5
Synopsis:
The three queens take farewell of each other as the bodies of their dead husbands are carried off for separate burials.
Music. Enter the Queens with the hearses of theirknights, in a funeral solemnity, &c.
⌜The dirge.⌝
0611 Urns and odors bring away;
0612 Vapors, sighs, darken the day;
0613 Our dole more deadly looks than dying;
0614 Balms and gums and heavy cheers,
0615 5 Sacred vials filled with tears,
0616 And clamors through the wild air flying.
0617 Come, all sad and solemn shows
0618 That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes;
0619 We convent naught else but woes.
0620 10 We convent naught else but woes.
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THIRD QUEEN, ⌜to Second Queen⌝ 0621 This funeral path brings to your household’s grave.
0622 Joy seize on you again; peace sleep with him.
SECOND QUEEN, ⌜to First Queen⌝
0623 And this to yours.
FIRST QUEEN, ⌜to Third Queen⌝ 0624 Yours this way. Heavens
0625 15 lend
0626 A thousand differing ways to one sure end.
THIRD QUEEN
0627 This world’s a city full of straying streets,
0628 And death’s the market-place where each one meets.
They exit severally.