ACT V
SCENE III | A church. |
| Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four
with tapers |
CLAUDIO | Is this the monument of Leonato? |
Lord | It is, my lord. |
CLAUDIO | Reading out of a scroll |
| Done to death by slanderous tongues |
| Was the Hero that here lies: | 5 |
| Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, |
| Gives her fame which never dies. |
| So the life that died with shame |
| Lives in death with glorious fame. |
| Hang thou there upon the tomb, | 10 |
| Praising her when I am dumb. |
| Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. |
| SONG. |
| Pardon, goddess of the night, |
| Those that slew thy virgin knight; | 15 |
| For the which, with songs of woe, |
| Round about her tomb they go. |
| Midnight, assist our moan; |
| Help us to sigh and groan, |
| Heavily, heavily: | 20 |
| Graves, yawn and yield your dead, |
| Till death be uttered, |
| Heavily, heavily. |
CLAUDIO | Now, unto thy bones good night! |
| Yearly will I do this rite. | 25 |
DON PEDRO | Good morrow, masters; put your torches out: |
| The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day, |
| Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about |
| Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. |
| Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well. | 30 |
CLAUDIO &n |
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