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Most miserable hour that e'er time saw In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!45 But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, But one thing to rejoice and solace in, And cruel death hath catch'd[E 1] it from my sight!

Nurse.

O woe![E 2] O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day,150 That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this: O woeful day, O woeful day![E 3]

Par.	Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!55 Most detestable[E 4] death, by thee beguiled, By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown! O love! O life! not life, but love in death![E 5]

Cap.	Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd! Uncomfortable time, why earnest thou now60 To murder, murder our solemnity? O child! O child! my soul, and not my child! Dead[E 6] art thou! alack! my child is dead; And with my child my joys are buried.

Fri.	Peace, ho! for shame! confusion's cure[C 1] lives[E 7] not65

1. 65. confusions cure] Theobald, confusions care Q, confusions: Care F.

1. 48. catch'd] Capell conjectures snatched.
2. 49. O woe!] Grant White suggests that in "this speech of mock heroic woe," Shakespeare ridicules the translation of Seneca's Tragedies (1581). The exclamatory mode of love and grief is ridiculed in the Pyramus and Thisbe of A Midsummer Nights Dream, V. i.
3. 54. O … day!] Daniel adopts Fleay's conjecture (to emend metre), "O woeful day! O woeful, woeful day!"
4. 56. detestable] Accent on first syllable, as in V. iii. 45.
5. 58. love! … death] I doubtfully throw out the suggestion: "O life! not life, O love! but love in death!"
6. 63. Dead] Theobald and many editors read, "Dead art thou! dead"; Malone conjectures, "Dead, dead, art thou!"
7. 65. lives] Lettsom conjectures lies.