Upon the threshold of another world;

Or some dead image that my living brain

Draws from remembrance on the viewless air,

And gives the voice I love to? Oh, being here,

Whatever thou may’st be, torment me not

By vanishing at once.

Viol. No spirit, Lope,

And no delusive image of the brain;

But one who, wretched in your wretchedness,

And partner of the crime you suffer for,