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SCENE VI.
A narrow hall or passage. Enter Carlos and Balthazar.Car.
calling to somebody behind him as he enters).
Go, bid those spearmen from the armourer
Receive their pageant suits, and let the warder
Hang o'er the battlements his sable flag!
Bal.
And will not Don Henriquez, then, in person
Attend the funeral rites?
Car.
His ancient steward
Has signified to me his lord's desire
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Respecting this sad ceremony.
Bal.
Have you not seen himself?
Car.
No; grief so stern, so cover'd and profound,
I never knew: he has refused to see me.
Bal.
They say his ghostly father hath been summon'd:
He'll try to soften his untoward grief.
Car.
I hope he will; but pass we on, I pray.
Bal.
The murd'rer has, I hear, escaped their search.
Car.
He did escape, if it was any thing,
Those frighten'd peasants saw.
Bal.
In truth it is a black, mysterious deed;
And, as it strikes my mind—
Car.
Some other time:
Pass on, I pray, our business must proceed.
[Exeunt.
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