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The Life and Death of

May move your hearts to pity, if you mark him.

Mur. Tut, tut, my lord, we will not stand to prate.
Talkers are no good doers: be assur'd
We go to use our hands and not our tongues. 352

Rich. Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes fall tears:
I like you, lads; about your business straight.
Go, go, dispatch.

Mur. We will, my noble lord.

[Exeunt.]

Scene Four

[The Same. The Tower]

Enter Clarence and Keeper.

Keep. Why looks your Grace so heavily to-day?

Clar. O, I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man, 4
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,
So full of dismal terror was the time.

Keep. What was your dream, my lord? I pray you, tell me. 8

Clar. Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,
And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;
And in my company my brother Gloucester,
Who from my cabin tempted me to walk 12
Upon the hatches: there we look'd toward England,
And cited up a thousand heavy times,

353 millstones; cf. n.

Scene Four S. d. Cf. n.
1 heavily: sorrowfully
9 Methoughts: it seemed to me
10 Burgundy; cf. n.
13 hatches: movable planks forming a kind of deck
14 cited up: called to mind