Quin. What, art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,[4248]
Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,[4249]
Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood 200
As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?[4250]
A very fatal place it seems to me.
Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?
Mart. O brother, with the dismal'st object hurt[4251]
That ever eye with sight made heart lament! 205
Aar. [Aside] Now will I fetch the king to find them here,[4252]
That he thereby may have a likely guess[4253]
How these were they that made away his brother. [Exit.[4254]
Mart. Why dost not comfort me, and help me out[4255]
From this unhallow'd and blood-stained hole?[4256] 210
Quin. I am surprised with an uncouth fear;[4257]
A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints;[4258]
My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.
Mart. To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,[4259]
Aaron and thou look down into this den,[4260] 215
And see a fearful sight of blood and death.
Quin. Aaron is gone; and my compassionate heart[4261]
Will not permit mine eyes once to behold
The thing whereat it trembles by surmise:
O, tell me how it is; for ne'er till now[4262] 220
Was I a child to fear I know not what.
Mart. Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,
All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,[4263]
In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.
Quin. If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?[4264] 225
Mart. Upon his bloody finger he doth wear
A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,[4265]
Which, like a taper in some monument,
Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,[4266]
And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:[4267] 230
So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus
When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.
0 brother, help me with thy fainting hand—
If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath—[4268]
Out of this fell devouring receptacle,[4269] 235
As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.[4270]