Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act V: Scene 1

ACT V.

Scene I. A churchyard.

[Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c.]

1 CLOWN.
Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she wilfully
seeks her own salvation?

2 CLOWN.
I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the
crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.

1 CLOWN.
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?

2 CLOWN.
Why, 'tis found so.

1 CLOWN.
It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies
the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an
act hath three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform:
argal, she drowned herself wittingly.

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