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Ethwald

A Tragedy, In Five Acts. Part First
  
  

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SCENE II.

A small gallery or passage with a door in front, which is opened, and enter Ethwald, and Ethelbert with a lamp in his hand.
Eth.
Then, by the morrow's midnight moon, we meet
At the Arch Sister's cave: till then, farewell!

Ethw.
Farewell! I will be punctual.

[Exit.
Eth.
(looking after him for some time before he speaks).
It ever is the mark'd propensity
Of restless and aspiring minds to look
Into the stretch of dark futurity.
But be it so: it now may turn to good.

[Exit, returning back again into the same chamber from which he came.