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Sist. O holy saints! that this should be the man, Who did against his fellow lift the stroke, Whilst he so loudly call'd.— Still in mine ear it sounds: O murder! murder!

''De Mon. (Starting.)'' He calls again!

Sist. No, he did call, but now his voice is still'd. 'Tis past.

''De Mon. (In great anguish.)'' 'Tis past!

Sist. Yes it is past, art thou not he who did it?

Abb. What noise is this of heavy lumb'ring steps, Like men who with a weighty burden come?

Bern. It is the body: I have orders given That here it should be laid.

Bern, to De Mon. See'st thou that lifeless corps, those bloody wounds, See how he lies, who but so shortly since A living creature was, with all the powers Of sense, and motion, and humanity?