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- 1 Enter a Scrivener.
- 2 SCRIVENER.
- 3 Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
- 4 Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed,
- 5 That it may be today read o’er in Paul’s.
- 6 And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
- 7 Eleven hours I have spent to write it over,
- 8 For yesternight by Catesby was it sent me;
- 9 The precedent was full as long a-doing
- 10 And yet within these five hours Hastings lived,
- 11 Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty.
- 12 Here’s a good world the while! Who is so gross
- 13 That cannot see this palpable device?
- 14 Yet who so bold but says he sees it not?
- 15 Bad is the world, and all will come to naught
- 16 When such ill dealing must be seen in thought.
- 17 [_Exit._]