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ACT V IT
Scene I IT
Enter two Clowns [− the Grave-digger and Another].
GRAVE.
Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own
salvation?
OTHER
I tell thee she is, therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on
her and finds it Christian burial. [5]
GRAVE.
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?
OTHER
Why, ’tis found so.
GRAVE.
It must be se offendendo, it cannot be else. For here lies the point: if I drown
myself wittingly, it [10] argues an act, and an act hath three branches − it is
to act, to do, to perform; argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
OTHER
Nay, but hear you, Goodman Delver −
GRAVE.
Give me leave. Here lies the water − good. [15] Here stands the man −
good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he
goes, mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns
not himself. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own
