With that grim ferry-man which poets write of,

Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.

The first that did greet my stranger soul,

Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;

Who cried aloud, “What scourge for perjury

Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?”

And so he vanished: then came wandering by

A shadow like an angel, with bright hair

Dabbled in blood; and he squeaked aloud,

“Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,