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First Offi. Farewel! God send your highness rest! meantime We'll pray for your recovery.

Sec. Offi. And heaven will hear our prayers.

(Omnes.) Amen, amen!

Ethw. Pray heaven to order all things for the weal Of my good realm, and I shall be well pleased My dearest Selred, think it not unkind, But go thou too.(Exit Selred. I am oppress'd. To them, even in this state, I still must be a king: to you, my friend, Let me put off all seeming and constraint, And be a poor weak man. (a pause.) Thou speakest not. Thy face is sad and solemn. Well I see Thou look'st upon me as a dying wretch— There is no hope.

Eth. Much will it profit thee To be prepared as tho' there were no hope; For if thou liv'st thou'lt live a better man, And if thou diest, may heaven accept it of thee!

Ethw. O that it would! But, my good Ethelbert, To be thus seized in my high career,