The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)

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Date variant: 1612
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Act I, Scene 5

Another part of a field before Thebes.

Song
[Music. Enter the Queens with the hearses of their
knights, in a funeral solemnity, &c.]

The dirge.

Urns and odors bring away;
Vapors, sighs, darken the day;
Our dole more deadly looks than dying;
Balms and gums and heavy cheers,
Sacred vials filled with tears,
And clamors through the wild air flying.
Come, all sad and solemn shows
That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes;
We convent naught else but woes.
We convent naught else but woes.

THIRD QUEEN
[to Second Queen]
This funeral path brings to your household's grave.
Joy seize on you again; peace sleep with him.

SECOND QUEEN
[to First Queen]
And this to yours.

FIRST QUEEN
[to Third Queen]
Yours this way. Heavens lend
A thousand differing ways to one sure end.

THIRD QUEEN
This world's a city full of straying streets,
And death's the market-place where each one meets.
[They exit severally.]

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The Two Noble Kinsmen (1613)

Act I, Scene 5

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