Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Act 5 - Scene 3

A church.

Claudio : Is this the monument of Leonato?

Lord : It is, my lord.

Claudio : [Reading out of a scroll] [p]Done to death by slanderous
tongues [p]Was the Hero that here lies: [p]Death, in guerdon of her
wrongs, [p]Gives her fame which never dies. [p]So the life that died
with shame [p]Lives in death with glorious fame. [p]Hang thou there
upon the tomb, [p]Praising her when I am dumb. [p]Now, music, sound,
and sing your solemn hymn. [p]SONG. [p]Pardon, goddess of the
night, [p]Those that slew thy virgin knight; [p]For the which, with
songs of woe, [p]Round about her tomb they go. [p]Midnight, assist our
moan; [p]Help us to sigh and groan, [p]Heavily, heavily: [p]Graves,
yawn and yield your dead, [p]Till death be uttered, [p]Heavily,
heavily.

Claudio : Now, unto thy bones good night! [p]Yearly will I do this rite.

Don Pedro : Good morrow, masters; put your torches out: [p]The wolves have prey'd;
and look, the gentle day, [p]Before the wheels of Phoebus, round
about [p]Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. [p]Thanks to you
all, and leave us: fare you well.

Claudio : Good morrow, masters: each his several way.

Don Pedro : Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds; [p]And then to Leonato's
we will go.

Claudio : And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's [p]Than this for whom we
render'd up this woe.

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