[40] Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.

[♦] Why grow the branches now the root is wither’d?

[♦] Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?

If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,

That our swift-winged souls may catch the king’s,

45 Or, like obedient subjects, follow him

[♦] To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.

[♦] Duch. Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow

[♦] As I had title in thy noble husband!

I have bewept a worthy husband’s death,