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SECOND GENTLEMAN

No more of that. [55]
[End of the procession]

Enter a Third Gentleman

FIRST GENTLEMAN
God save you, sir! Where have you been broiling?

THIRD GENTLEMAN
Among the crowd i’th’Abbey, where a finger

Could not be wedged in more; I am stifled
With the mere rankness of their joy.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
You saw
The ceremony?

THIRD GENTLEMAN
That I did.

FIRST GENTLEMAN

How was it? [60]

THIRD GENTLEMAN

Well worth the seeing.

SECOND GENTLEMAN
Good sir, speak it to us.

THIRD GENTLEMAN
As well as I am able. The rich stream
Of lords and ladies, having brought the Queen
To a prepared place in the choir, fell off

A distance from her, while her grace sat down [65]
To rest awhile, some half an hour or so,
In a rich chair of state, opposing freely