155 To free us from his father’s wrathful curse,

I do believe that violent hands were laid

Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.

Suf. A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!

[♦] What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?

160 War. See how the blood is settled in his face.

[♦] Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,

[♦] Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,

Being all descended to the labouring heart;

Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,