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SCENE I. -- Daybreak. Street in front of UPSALL's house. A light in the window. Enter JOHN ENDICOTT.
JOHN ENDICOTT. / O silent, sombre, and deserted streets, / To me ye 're peopled with a sad procession, / And echo only to the voice of sorrow! / O houses full of peacefulness and sleep, / Far better were it to awake no more / Than wake to look upon such scenes again! / There is a light in Master Upsall's window. / The good man is already risen, for sleep / Deserts the couches of the old.