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GAOLER.

Yes, father; he hath slept, I guess, since midnight.

FRIAR.

How know'st thou this?

GAOLER.

I've listen'd at his door

From time to time, and nought have heard within
But a deep silence, once or twice broke faintly
By slow-heaved breathings, as of heavy sleep.

FRIAR.

So sound asleep, and such a morn to wake to!

GAOLER.

Nay, they who sleep before their day of doom

Sleep often thus,—a deathlike, dreamless sleep.
(Speaking as he goes off.)
I well remember one, who, on the morn——
[Exeunt.

SCENE V.

The Prison Chamber. Henriquez discovered asleep on a Couch, near the Front of the Stage.

Enter Friar and Gaoler.

FRIAR.

Still fast asleep: it grieves my soul to wake him.

No trace of trouble on his face! He lies