I send to heaven, when all is view’d

Who should but I then altogether

Have thank of all their coming thither?’

The Pardoner here interrupts him captiously—

‘If ye kill’d a thousand in an hour’s space,

When come they to heaven, dying out of grace?’

But the Poticary not so baffled, retorts—

‘If a thousand pardons about your necks were tied;

When come they to heaven, if they never died?

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