“For, statue like, here will I fix myself,

“Till thou dost hear me out.

“Oh! is’t not most manlike, that we stain

“Our hands with blood that ne’er did us offend?

“Is’t not most serpent-like, to sting sweet sleep,

“Which even from the giant takes all strength,

“And makes man taste of that which is to come?

“Let us, I pray thee, friend, turn from the deed!

“I cannot, dare not, nay! I will not do’t.

1st Mur. “Coward! take hence that poor, unmanly frame,