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SCENE II. -- The prison. GILES COREY at a table on which are some papers.
COREY. / Now I have done with earth and all its cares; / I give my worldly goods to my dear children; / My body I bequeath to my tormentors, / And my immortal soul to Him who made it. / O God! who in thy wisdom dost afflict me / With an affliction greater than most men / Have ever yet endured or shall endure, / Suffer me not in this last bitter hour / For any pains of death to fall from Thee!