When darkness rose on the extinguished day Out of the eastern wilderness.

INDIAN

I too

Have found a moment's paradise in sleep
Half compensate a hell of waking sorrow.

Charles the First

Dramatis Personæ

KING CHARLES I.

QUEEN HENRIETTA,

LAUD, Archbishop of Canterbury.

WENTWORTH, Earl of Strafford.

LORD COTTINGTON.

LORD WESTON.

LORD COVENTRY.

WILLIAMS, Bishop of Lincoln,

Secretary LYTTELton.

JUXON.

ST. JOHN.

ARCHY, the Court Fool,

HAMPDEN.

PYM.

CROMWELL.

CROMWELL'S Daughter.

SIR HARRY VANɛ the younger.

LEIGHTON.

BASTWICK.

PRYNNE.

Gentlemen of the Inns of Court, Citizens, Pursuivants,

Marshalsmen, Law Students, Judges, Clerk.

Charles the First

SCENE I. - The Mask of the Inns of Court.

A PURSUIVANT

Place, for the Marshal of the Mask!

FIRST CITIZEN

What thinkest thou of this quaint mask which

turns,

Like morning from the shadow of the night, The night to day, and London to a place