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SCENE II. -- A street. On one side, NICHOLAS UPSALL's house; on the other, WALTER MERRY's, with a flock of pigeons on the roof. UPSALL seated in the porch of his house.
UPSALL. / O day of rest! How beautiful, how fair, / How welcome to the weary and the old! / Day of the Lord! and truce to earthly cares! / Day of the Lord, as all our days should be! / Ah, why will man by his austerities / Shut out the blessed sunshine and the light, / And make of thee a dungeon of despair!