How now, cousin Hero!

Friar. Have comfort, lady.

[118] Leon. Dost thou look up?

Friar. Yea, wherefore should she not?

[120] Leon. Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing

Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny

The story that is printed in her blood?

Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:

For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,

[125] Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,