PLATE LXVIII.

Second

Far'

of

King

Henry VI.

                             Act L Scene LV


                     GLOUCESTER'S GARDEN.


BOLINGBROKE, SOUTH WELL, HUME, DUCHESS, MARGERY 7OURDAIN~
                              and SPIRIT


       Boliugbroke.-Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:
      Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
      The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
      The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl
      And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,
      That time best fits the work we have in hand.
      Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,
      We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.
              [Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make
                the circle;  Bolingbroke or Sozi/hwell reads,
                Conjuro te, &c.    It thunders and li~'htens ter-
                ribly, f/zen the Spirit rise/h.
        S1Airit.-Adsum.
        Jourdain.-As math,
      By the eternal God, whose name and power
      Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;
      For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.

        Stirit.-Ask what thou wilt.  That I had said and done I


                     Pain/ed by YQHAT OPIE, P. A.