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This is my play's last scene; here heavens appoint / My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race / Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace; / My span's last inch, my minutes' latest point; / And gluttonous Death will instantly unjoint / My body and soul, and I shall sleep a space; / But my ever-waking part shall see that face, / Whose fear already shakes my every joint. / Then, as my soul to heaven her first seat takes flight, / And earthborn body in the earth shall dwell, / So fall my sins, that all may have their right, / To where they're bred and would press me to hell. / Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil, / For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.