THEO. Homeless, tattered and tanned,
Nay, bid me not resign love.
Oh, naughty, naughty Clawa,
I'll strike you with a feathaw.
How can I bear to leave thee.
JULIA. Tommy, O Tommy, don't go,
The clock in the steeple strikes one.
THEO. What! my grandfather's clock?
(He collapses in an ash-barrel. JULIA falls out of the window.)
DINAH (within). Another note and you die.
THEO. I die, I die;
See that my grave's kept green.
(Cocks crow and the morning sun comes peeping over the hills.)
1 An instrument lately introduced in the Pierian Sodality by a medical student, and murmuring, "Somebody's coming when the dew-drops fall."