Dungeon of the Palace. PALICIO discovered. A door at back of prison is L. of centre.
PALICIO.
I cannot think of death. Imagination
Is barren on that point, and hath no picture;—
To be so near should better prick the fancy.—
I see a grave—but stand beside the grave ...
Nothing.—And yet I am so near.—I judge
From this how dizzily deep rides the division
’Twixt this world and the next; tho’ in Time’s face
’Tis thin, ay, more invisibly sharp than is