The Two Noble Kinsmen
Act I, Scene 5
Another part of a field before Thebes.
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Music. Enter the Queens with the hearses of their Knights in
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a funeral solemnity, etc.
All Queens
1 - 10
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Song.
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Urns and odors bring away,
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Vapors, sighs, darken the day;
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Our dole more deadly looks than dying;
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Balms, and gums, and heavy cheers,
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Sacred vials fill’d with tears,
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And clamors through the wild air flying!
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Come all sad and solemn shows,
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That are quick-ey’d pleasure’s foes!
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We convent nought else but woes:
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We convent, etc.
Third Queen
11 - 12
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This funeral path brings to your household’s grave:
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Joy seize on you again! Peace sleep with him!
Second Queen
13
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And this to yours.
First Queen
14 - 15
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Yours this way. Heavens lend
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A thousand differing ways to one sure end.
Third Queen
16 - 17
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This world’s a city full of straying streets,
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And death’s the market-place, where each one meets.
