[♦] O, now I want the priest that spake to me:

90 I now repent I told the pursuivant,

[♦] As ’twere triumphing at mine enemies,

[♦] How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher’d,

And I myself secure in grace and favour.

O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse

[95] Is lighted on poor Hastings’ wretched head!

[♦] Rat. Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:

Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.

[♦] Hast. O momentary grace of mortal men,