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SCENE II. -- A street. Enter JOHN ENDICOTT and UPSALL.
JOHN ENDICOTT. / Scourged in three towns! and yet the busy people / Go up and down the streets on their affairs / Of business or of pleasure, as if nothing / Had happened to disturb them or their thoughts! / When bloody tragedies like this are acted, / The pulses of a nation should stand still / The town should be in mourning, and the people / Speak only in low whispers to each other.