afterwards—
"When Heav'n shall call her from this cloud of darkness,"
and then, after disposing of the King—
"She shall be to the happiness of England
An aged princess . . .
. . . . . .
Would I had known no more—but she must die;
She must—the saints must have her yet a virgin," &c.
would be ridiculous. All that can be said is, that either way it is partly ridiculous to make it a matter of prophecy and lamentation that a human being must, sometime or other, die.