"She does not move," he said ... and "ay, she sleeps,"

As though she slept eternally.

[Goes to bed, and takes up the dagger]

His dagger.

Oft has it pleased me to regard this hilt.

Pearls winding like a milky way about

A turquoise heaven. Even then my fate

Lurked in the blade. Why do I talk, and beg

A vile delay? Pain is sole merchant here,

And with each moment amplifies his profit.