You shall burn too,
Burn first when I am burnt.
Fire--inch by inch to die in agony! Latimer
Had a brief end--not Ridley. Hooper burn'd
Three-quarters of an hour. Will my faggots
Be wet as his were? It is a day of rain.
I will not muse upon it.
My fancy takes the burner's part, and makes
The fire seem even crueller than it is.
No, I not doubt that God will give me strength,
Albeit I have denied him.
_Enter_ SOTO _and_ VILLA GARCIA.
VILLA GARCIA. We are ready
To take you to St. Mary's, Master Cranmer.
CRANMER. And I: lead on; ye loose me from my bonds.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE III.--ST. MARY'S CHURCH.
COLE _in the Pulpit_, LORD WILLIAMS OF THAME _presiding_. LORD WILLIAM
HOWARD, LORD PAGET, _and others_. CRANMER _enters between_ SOTO _and_
VILLA GARCIA, _and the whole Choir strike up_ 'Nunc Dimittis.' CRANMER
_is set upon a Scaffold before the people_.
COLE. Behold him--
[_A pause: people in the foreground_.
PEOPLE. Oh, unhappy sight!
FIRST PROTESTANT. See how the tears run down his fatherly face.
SECOND PROTESTANT. James, didst thou ever see a carrion crow Stand
watching a sick beast before he dies?
FIRST PROTESTANT. Him perch'd up there? I wish some thunderbolt Would
make this Cole a cinder, pulpit and all.
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