EPILOGUE.

(Moving apart the folds of the curtain, The Astrologer looks out.)

Astrologer
(to the audience).

There! My story’s ended;

But the bloody conclusion,

However sad it may be,

Need not disturb you.

Perhaps the Queen and I

Were the only living people in it;

The rest were—a delirium, a dream;

A pale spectre, nothing more.…

(Disappears.)