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