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SCENE IV.

The same. The Duke of Gloster's garden.

Enter MARGERY JOURDAIN, HUME, SOUTHWELL, and

BOLINGBROKE.

"Hume. Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell "you, expects performance of your promises.

"Bol. Master Hume, we are therefore provided. "Will her ladyship behold and hear our exor"cisms ? 1

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"Hume. Ay; what else? Fear you not her courage.

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Bol. I have heard her reported to be a woman " of an invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient, "master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be busy below; and so, I pray you, go in God's name, and leave us. [Exit Hume.] Mother 'Jourdain, be you prostrate, and grovel on the earth." John Southwell, read you; and let us "to our work.

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Enter DUCHESS, above.

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Duch. Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this geer; 2 the sooner the better.

"Bol. Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:

1 By exorcise Shakspeare invariably means to raise spirits, and not to lay them.

2 Matter or business.

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Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;

The time when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs 1 howl,

And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves, That time best fits the work we have in hand. • Madam, sit you, and fear not; whom we raise, • We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.

[here they perform the ceremonies appertaining, and make the circle: Bolingbroke, or Southwell, reads, Conjuro te, &c. It thunders and lightens terribly ; then the Spirit riseth.

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By the eternal God, whose name and power "Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask ;

"For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.

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Spi. Ask what thou wilt.-That I had said and

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Bol. First, of the king. What shall of him be[reading out of a paper. Spi. The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose; But him outlive, and die a violent death.

[as the Spirit speaks, Southwell writes the answer. Bol. What fate awaits the duke of Suffolk ?

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Spi. By water shall he die, and take his end.

I Watch dogs.

Bol.

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What shall befal the duke of Somerset ? '

Spi. Let him shun castles:

Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains,

'Than where castles mounted stand.

Have done, for more I hardly can endure.

Bol. Descend to darkness and the burning lake: False fiend, avoid!

[thunder and lightning. Spirit descends.

Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM, hastily, with their Guards, and others.

York. Lay hands upon these traitors and their

trash.

Beldam, I think, we watch'd you at an inch.

What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal

'Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains. My lord protector will, I doubt it not,

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See you well guerdon'd1 for these good deserts. Duch. Not half so bad as thine to England's

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king,

Injurious duke; that threat'st where is no cause. Buck. True, madam, none at all. What call [showing her the papers.

you this?

'Away with them; let them be clapp'd up close, And kept asunder.-You, madam, shall with us :— 'Stafford, take her to thee.

[Exit Duchess from above.

Rewarded.

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