And mock’d the dead bones that lay scatter’d by.

Brak. Had you such leisure in the time of death

[35] To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?

[♦] Clar. Methought I had; and often did I strive

[♦] To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood

[♦] Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth

[♦] To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;

40 But smother’d it within my panting bulk,

[♦] Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.

[♦] Brak. Awaked you not with this sore agony?