Part 21 (1/2)

SCENE III.

[_Last Cut._] [_3rd Grooves._]

_View of Westminster Abbey. Sunset._

_Enter three or four Citizens, meeting severally._

_1st Cit._ The skies weep not, there is no shock to the earth.

Art thou not Peter Ingram? Yet the king Hath been beheaded, lost his head!

The king Of England murther'd, slain in open day!

_2nd Cit._ I did not think they would do it-- Who'll be king Now he is dead?

_3rd Cit._ Why some say none.

_4th Cit._ Indeed, The Parliament is king.

_2nd Cit._ They say that Cromwell Had much to do in this.

Were you there?

_1st Cit._ No.

_Others._ Nor I.

_2nd Cit._ Here comes another. We shall hear, If he hath seen.

_Enter another Citizen._

_5th Cit._ Oh, eyes! Oh, ears! Alas!

_1st Cit._ Were you there?

_5th Cit._ Was I not? He died right well, As 'twere a man that nothing had to lose, Save the poor head he gave his enemies.

_1st Cit._ Indeed you're right, he had not much of late.

_2nd Cit._ How was it?

_5th Cit._ Well, they would not let him speak Much, for the sound of the drums--are ye this way?

My wife is waiting, she is curious; come, I'll tell you all I saw-- [_Exeunt severally._]

_Enter two Gentlemen, R. and L._

_1st Gent., L._ All, then, is o'er: the body they have taken To lie in Whitehall--

_2nd Gent., R._ So I heard. Where are The men who order'd it?

_1st Gent._ I know not. Cromwell Was there; I noted him.

_2nd Gent._ How looked he when The king came forth? I had no eyes for aught Except the prisoner.