Much Ado About Nothing [The Wizarding World]

Act 5, Scene 3

Muhammed Bas, some of their officers, members of Cepheus' household, and a musician, approached the mausoleum with torches. 'Is this Cepheus' tomb?' said Bas.

'It is, my lord,' one of Cepheus' servants said.

Bas was carrying a wreath and he went forward and lay it at the entrance. Then he stepped back and took a scroll from one of the officers, unrolled it, and read it.
'Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Theadora who here lies:
Death, in payment of her wrongs.
Gives her fame which never dies.
So the life that died with shame
Lives in death with glorious fame.
Lie you there upon the tomb.
Praising her when I am dumb.
Now music play and sing your solemn hymn.'

The musician strummed a short introduction on his lute then sang, while the others stood at solemn attention.
'Pardon, goddess of the night,
Those that slew thy virgin knight:
For the which, with songs of woe,
Round about her tomb they go.
Midnight, assist our moan:
Help us to sigh and groan,
Heavily, heavily:
Graves, yawn and yield your dead,
Till death be uttered,
Heavily, heavily.'

He finished and Bas made his concluding statement: 'Now, good night to your remains. I'll perform this rite every year.'

'Good night, gentlemen,' said Muhammed. 'Put your torches out. The wolves have gone to sleep, and look, daylight is beginning to dapple the eastern sky with grey spots. Thanks to all of you and leave us now. Farewell.'

'Good morning, gentlemen,' said Bas, 'and all on your separate ways.'

'Come, let's go and change and go to Cepheus',' said Muhammed.

'And may the god of love give us a better outcome this time,' said Bas.

Bas, who still believes that Theadora is dead, goes to her supposed tomb and reads an epitaph celebrating her innocence and grieving the slander that led to her death.