StoryTitle("caps", "The Shrouding of the Dutchess of Malfi ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark! Now everything is still,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The screech-owl and the whistler shrill, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Call upon our dame aloud, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bid her quickly don her shroud! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Much you had of land and rent; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your length in clay's now competent: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A long war disturb'd your mind; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here your perfect peace is sign'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sin their conception, their birth weeping, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their life a general mist of error, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their death a hideous storm of terror. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Strew your hair with powders sweet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Don clean linen, bathe your feet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And—the foul fiend more to check— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A crucifix let bless your neck: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "End your groan and come away. ", "") ?>
Poet("John Webster", "c. 1580 - c. 1634") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>