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My Lady … |
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Siwan – I've been waiting, outside the keep. |
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What made you detain her such a time? |
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Yes? What of it? |
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Twenty five, and a father to four daughters. |
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Why tell me about your brother? |
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What if he is travelling to France? |
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To keep me away? |
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No one saw me. Don't worry. And your guards |
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Were sleeping. Did you drug their wine? |
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Don't forget – I'm almost one of the family here. |
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Your daughter's my step-mother |
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And my daughter will soon marry your Dafydd. |
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That gives me some right to come and go … |
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You want this marriage – your Dafydd |
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To my daughter – more than anything. I know. |
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And what lessons have you taught him? |
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I do know you say that mockingly. |
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I'll show you one wife - a Prince's wife |
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Who's consulted as a prime minister, |
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Who's the court's chief ambassador |
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And who walks the halls and makes heads turn |
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As if she were Helen of Troy … My lady? |
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Do you know what they say about you |
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Down in South Wales? |
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That Gwynedd, thanks to your influence, |
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Has become a French princedom. |
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All your children have been given away |
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To a French nobleman in marriage. |
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You've almost changed your Welsh Prince |
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Into an adopted Frenchman. |
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You're the first successful politician |
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That I've found to be intelligent and intuitive |
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Siwan. |
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And when was that, my lady? |
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An inspired suggestion. |
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You astonish me Siwan. |
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You know why I came here to your court. |
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And why do I want to see that wedding happen |
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As much as – if not more than – you do? |
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O, Siwan – I didn't come here to talk politics. |
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How is that? |
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Are you frightened of some other truths? |
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Do I frighten you Siwan? Is that it? |
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They're the very things |
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That make life so sweet. |
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You've guessed then why I came here |
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To arrange the wedding. |
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I wouldn't call my longing for you a pleasure. |
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One thing I didn't come here to do |
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Was to exchange jibes. |
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I was only ten years old, |
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At my father's wedding in Hereford |
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When I first set eyes on you, Princess, |
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As you led your first daughter, a child bride, |
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To be my father's second wife, |
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And the crowd in the church garlanding |
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Your path with rose petals. |
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I didn't speak to you then – I couldn't. |
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My heart was in my throat. |
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I gathered up a handful |
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Of scented rose petals, |
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And they were my pillow that night. |
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Not that I slept. |
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My mind was restive, hungry … |
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I didn't see you then until I was brought here |
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In manacles. My wounds were light – |
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But I became feverish. |
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You came to my bed, surrounded by your maids. |
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Walking towards me as I'd seen you in Hereford. |
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Was it the fever? |
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Or was it my breathless excitement |
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That made me sweat and lie atremble |
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As you knelt over me, placing your lips on my mouth? |
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But you knew that my wounds weren't serious. |
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It was that kiss. It was fated, |
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Like Isault's kiss … |
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I'll talk of happier things. |
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When I'd recovered, I stayed awhile. |
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We'd go riding along the mountain passes |
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Stopping on some sunlit verge to drink wine. |
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And there was singing and dancing in this fortress … |
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The halls of Gwynedd's court were |
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As bright as any in Aquitaine. |
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Then your kisses turned from courtly greetings |
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To a hotter, sweeter foretaste |
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Of this tryst tonight. |
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Do you remember when you first kissed me |
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With your mouth on fire, greedy … |
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He's got a knack of returning |
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At the wrong time. |
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You see. And that's why I've returned. |
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My daughter's marriage to your Dafydd |
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Was agreed by me, so that I could be here now, |
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To claim you, make love to you Siwan. |
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Of course, you knew that. |
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I'd give my whole kingdom |
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For this night in your bed Siwan. |
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I heard that Francis as a young man |
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Was a gambler and a squanderer. |
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I like men who gamble, with money and with fate |
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Who can lose and still cock a snook |
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At life and luck. |
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If Francis was ever such a lad |
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He's the Saint for me. |
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But not tonight. Fortune's with me tonight. |
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If I lose my luck and lose your love |
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Then I'll plead with Saint Francis. |
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You have to take me as I am Siwan. |
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Since I was a child |
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I've been in my element hunting, fighting |
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Accepting dares. That's how you squeeze |
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The grapes of experience till your mouth |
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Runs with the tang of their juices. |
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Your taste will be sweeter Siwan. |
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More exquisite, even more heady. |
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Who would I tell? |
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Perhaps I mentioned that. Perhaps I told |
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Hubert the Chancellor. Such details |
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Interest him. Why? |
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If Llywelyn suspected anything |
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He's a wily enough statesman |
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To let me deliver my castle as dowry |
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Before unleashing any angry accusation. |
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I know the Prince of Gwynedd. |
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Why talk of him now? |
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You promised this night to me. |
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And your love? |
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Do you give that too Siwan? |
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I'll wait. You summoned me tonight |
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You put the opiates in the guards' possets. |
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And why Siwan? Why all this for me? |
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Your bed is beckoning Siwan. |
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D'you hear those sounds, like horses in the distance? |
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Those steeds are shod, I tell you. |
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No. Not now. But my ear |
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Is attuned to the sound of hooves. |
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I'm hardly ever mistaken. |
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That was a dog. Somewhere by the fortress gate. |
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What? |
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No. He's taken Gelert with him. |
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To do some hunting on his journey home. |
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What a dog! I saw it once |
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Running down a stag, bounding along the crags, |
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Defying death, above the abyss … |
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You heard a dog. But not Llywelyn's hound. |
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Siwan, my love. The candles' flames are flickering low |
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And this royal bed begs us to make bold use of it. |
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Let me take you before the light dies. |
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I can't hear anything … |
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It's your imagination. Your pretty ears |
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Are flattened back like a frightened cat's. |
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Why are you suddenly so nervous? |
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The fortress gates, yes, opened and closed. |
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The sentries are probably changing shift. |
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What's happening? |
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Soldiers are surrounding this tower. |
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You're right. Something's going on … |
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Not with me. Not even a dagger. Nothing. |
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I'm going to see if the stairway's clear. |
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And tens of armed soldiers around this keep's entrance. |
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We've been betrayed Siwan. We're trapped. |
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The space is too narrow. |
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Where are the maids' chambers? |
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And what's above us? |
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There's nowhere to escape. |
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No move I can make. |
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The Prince must be welcomed to his royal chamber. |
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It sounds as if he's on his way. |
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How shall his welcome be? |
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Simple and sans ceremony? |
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You won't need to do that. |
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I've no dagger or sword. |
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Now there spits the rhetoric of wounded pride. |
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I've loved a Princess, who's a married woman, |
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But so do hundreds of noblemen. |
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Such things are as much part of our lives |
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As jousts and tournaments. |
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You caught me in your bed. Very well – |
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Exact your penalty, |
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Make me pay for this indiscretion. |
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You're already promised my castle in Builth as dowry |
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And your son is to take my daughter. |
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Now for this – take more of my lands, |
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Of my wealth – take anything you want. |
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That's more than you would dare. |
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Your anger, my Lord, is clouding your common sense. |
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Every lord in France, in England and the Marches |
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Would turn against you, and take up arms to challenge you |
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If you dared kill me. That action |
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Could ruin Gwynedd. |
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Oh! This isn't righteous anger |
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Or wounded dignity. This is jealousy! |
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Siwan, my lady, what other Princess |
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In the whole of Europe has a husband who … |
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Siwan! |