Our precious jewel; waiting to seize her soul.

FIRST MERCHANT.

We need but hover over her head in the air,

For she has only minutes: when she came

I saw the dimness of the tomb in her,

And marked her walking as with leaden shoes

And looking on the ground as though the worms

Were calling her, and when she wrote her name

Her heart began to break. Hush! hush! I hear

The brazen door of Hell move on its hinges,