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,