[_He stabs_ JULIO.--_From under the stage a groan._ Howl not, thou putry[278] mould; groan not, ye graves; Be dumb, all breath. Here stands Andrugio's son, Worthy his father. So: I feel no breath. His jaws are fall'n, his dislodg'd soul is fled: And now there's nothing but Piero left: He is all Piero, father all. This blood, This breast, this heart, Piero all: Whom thus I mangle. Sprite of Julio, Forget this was thy trunk. I live thy friend: 200 May'st thou be twinèd with the soft'st embrace Of clear eternity: but thy father's blood I thus make incense of to vengeance. Ghost of my poison'd sire, suck this fume: To sweet revenge perfume thy circling air With smoke of blood. I sprinkle round his gore, And dew thy hearse with these fresh-reeking drops. Lo thus I heave my blood-dyed hands to heaven, Even like insatiate hell still crying, More! My heart hath thirsting dropsies after gore. 210 Sound peace and rest to church, night-ghosts, and graves: Blood cries for blood, and murder murder craves. [_Exit._ [263] See note 1, p. 111. [264] We should have expected "paizèd," _i.e._, steady, unfaltering. (The reader will note that Marston constantly uses "vengeance" as a trisyllable.) [265] Cf. p. 178. "The fist of strenuous vengeance is clutch'd"--a line which Ben Jonson ridicules in _The Poetaster_ (v. i.) [266] A quotation from Seneca's _Thyestes_, 194-5. [267] Not marked in old eds.--The Latin lines are from Seneca's _Thyestes_. ll. 13-14, 75-80. [268] Ed. 1602 "antri." [269] Old eds. "_feres_." [270] The metre might be restored by reading-- "And by the mould that presseth down the skull Of my dead father, I will be revenged." [271] Is busy with.--So in _The Tempest_:-- "Do not infest your mind with _beating on_ The strangeness of this business." [272] Old form of _digest_. [273] Wanton excesses. [274] It is hard to see why Pandulfo should be shouting with the ghosts. [275] Senec., _Thyestes_, 494-5:-- "Venit in nostras manus Tandem Thyestes; venit et totus quidem." [276] Old eds. "cleares." [277] Half-starved. [278] So ed. 1633.--Ed. 1602 "pury." SCENE II. _Chamber of Maria._ _Enter two Pages with torches_; MARIA, _her hair loose, and_ NUTRICHE.