I can not strike. [Drops her arm] I must ... ere I go mad

And leave the event to chance.

[Lifts dagger, grows faint and falls with a cry to the floor. Kent enters, left]

Kent. Twas Margaret's voice. My love?

[Advances and sees Margaret on the floor]

O, life of mine!

[Looks toward bed]

Glaia! Uncovered—bleeding—dead! Put out

My eyes! Out ... out. What cruelty yet lives

In Heaven to show me this? O, Eleanor,