Marry, but it can!—or else your sword's a foolish dog that dar'n't bite his owner.

Marlowe.

O friends—dear friends—this is a sorry end—

A most unworthy end! To think—O God!—

To think that I should fall by the hand of one

Whose office, like his nature, is all baseness,

Gives Death ten thousand stings, and to the Grave

A damning victory! Fame sinks with life!

A galling—shameful—ignominious end! (sinks down).

O mighty heart! O full and orbed heart,