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Dreamweaver
[Enter Don Pedro, Claudio and Attendants,]
[with music and tapers.]
Claudio
Is this the monument of Leonato?
A Lord
It is, my lord.
[Reads from a scroll.]
Claudio
Epitaph.
[Done to death by slanderous tongues]
Claudio
Was the Hero that here lies:
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
[Gives her fame which never dies.]
Claudio
So the life that died with shame
[Lives in death with glorious fame.]
Claudio
Hang thou there upon the tomb,
Praising her when I am dumb.
Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.
Song.
[Pardon, goddess of the night,]
Claudio
Those that slew thy virgin knight;
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:]
Claudio
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.
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.
Claudio
Good morrow, masters: each his several way.
Don Pedro
Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
And then to Leonato’s we will go.
Claudio
And Hymen now with luckier issue speed’s,
Than this for whom we rend’red up this woe!
[Exeunt.]