| (3, 1) 1646 | EN'S TOWER, CARDUEL. (Two years later.) |
| (3, 1) 1647 | ~ |
| (3, 1) 1648 | Large bay window at back of stage. |
| (3, 1) 1649 | A door {LC} leading to Queen's apartments. |
| (3, 1) 1650 | Another (L) leading to knights' part of Castle. |
| (3, 1) 1651 | Door (R) to stairway leading to the lists. |
| (3, 1) 1809 | Lynette! |
| (3, 1) 1810 | What friends support the causes of these knights? |
| (3, 1) 1815 | So! A savage pair, |
| (3, 1) 1816 | Geraint, Owain: they will not lightly seize |
| (3, 1) 1817 | On enterprise, but make them well assured |
| (3, 1) 1818 | That they sustain no vessel of slight strength. |
| (3, 1) 1819 | I have heard much of this strange Lanval's power, |
| (3, 1) 1820 | But know him not beyond the courtesy |
| (3, 1) 1821 | That's natural to all of kindly birth. |
| (3, 1) 1822 | But ye should know. How is it, Alysoun, |
| (3, 1) 1823 | That one who is apparently upheld |
| (3, 1) 1824 | By qualities beyond the common scale |
| (3, 1) 1825 | Comes not among us? |
| (3, 1) 1829 | That's but a vaporous |
| (3, 1) 1830 | And stale description. Dost thou know, Lynette, |
| (3, 1) 1831 | What the man is? |
| (3, 1) 1839 | Is he a fool? |
| (3, 1) 1841 | Helène, |
| (3, 1) 1842 | What do men say of him? |
| (3, 1) 1846 | I have heard as much; |
| (3, 1) 1847 | Yet many men with half these qualities |
| (3, 1) 1848 | Are better known. There's something strange in him. |
| (3, 1) 1850 | Tell me what passes. |
| (3, 1) 1861 | What is't, Lynette? |
| (3, 1) 1864 | The vantage? |
| (3, 1) 1872 | Who is o'erborne? |
| (3, 1) 1879 | They are well matched. |
| (3, 1) 1882 | He falls. 'Tis finished. |
| (3, 1) 1887 | Peace! He will spare him. |
| (3, 1) 1889 | Silence! I know Sir Lanval is at heart |
| (3, 1) 1890 | Of kindly nature. Though Sir Agravaine |
| (3, 1) 1891 | Has been at fault, as is so clearly proved, |
| (3, 1) 1892 | This degradation shall bring him no harm. |
| (3, 1) 1896 | Peace. Go, Alysoun, |
| (3, 1) 1897 | And bid Sir Lanval come attend me here. |
| (3, 1) 1899 | Be swift. |
| (3, 1) 1901 | What is it, fool, dost love |
| (3, 1) 1902 | Sir Agravaine? |
| (3, 1) 1910 | Think'st thou to so deceive? |
| (3, 1) 1911 | I see thee, girl. Thou lov'st this Agravaine, |
| (3, 1) 1912 | And yet for fear would'st not acknowledge it, |
| (3, 1) 1913 | Thinking that I — by heaven, have a care, |
| (3, 1) 1914 | Thoughts have a habit of becoming deeds. |
| (3, 1) 1915 | This that thou lovest lies within the reach |
| (3, 1) 1916 | Of the dread gallows. Therefore, have a guard |
| (3, 1) 1917 | Upon thy tongue. There are ends as ill |
| (3, 1) 1918 | That wait on women who have not the gift |
| (3, 1) 1919 | Of gentle silence. |
| (3, 1) 1921 | What answer, girl? |
| (3, 1) 1924 | Nay, it is urgent. Go thou, girl, again, |
| (3, 1) 1925 | Bid him attend me armed — he is unhurt? |
| (3, 1) 1927 | Go then, and bid him come |
| (3, 1) 1928 | Instant, accoutred even as he is, |
| (3, 1) 1929 | Say that I have some reason for request, |
| (3, 1) 1930 | And earnestly for his attendance plead. |
| (3, 1) 1932 | Mark me, Lynette, I think this Agravaine |
| (3, 1) 1933 | Has been thy lover. Is it not so? Fool, |
| (3, 1) 1934 | What gain is there in a denial. Think; |
| (3, 1) 1935 | Were I in anger, should I not be kind, |
| (3, 1) 1936 | Smile on thy love and shortly be avenged? |
| (3, 1) 1937 | And so I will. I'll beg of Lanval, now, |
| (3, 1) 1938 | His life and body. Thou shalt have them both. |
| (3, 1) 1939 | Things that are fallen are of me despised, |
| (3, 1) 1940 | And interest that I have once displayed |
| (3, 1) 1941 | Can, like a garment, be soon cast aside. |
| (3, 1) 1942 | I'll pledge him to thee. Wished I for revenge, |
| (3, 1) 1943 | Or were I jealous, I could wreak no ill |
| (3, 1) 1944 | So dangerous. |
| (3, 1) 1948 | Have a care, Lynette, |
| (3, 1) 1949 | For I am minded to be generous. |
| (3, 1) 1950 | As for this man who is reputed cold, |
| (3, 1) 1951 | Whose virtues live but in state services, |
| (3, 1) 1952 | I'll handle him and fashion his device |
| (3, 1) 1953 | Unto new purpose. Go! |
| (3, 1) 1955 | Go. |
| (3, 1) 1956 | Make me not harsh. |
| (3, 1) 1958 | Why am I curious now, |
| (3, 1) 1959 | To try the texture of this novel man, |
| (3, 1) 1960 | Whose gravity is so unnatural? |
| (3, 1) 1961 | Doth not knights' duty learn them to serve us? |
| (3, 1) 1962 | Yet, otherwise, he lacks not knightliness; |
| (3, 1) 1963 | In truth his manner is of seemly sort, |
| (3, 1) 1964 | And I do wonder — wonder overmuch! |
| (3, 1) 1965 | Enough, he comes! |
| (3, 1) 1967 | Sir Lanval, pardon me |
| (3, 1) 1968 | That I enforce thee to attend me here; |
| (3, 1) 1969 | I have no right to ask of thee a boon, |
| (3, 1) 1970 | But my request is not for mine own cause; |
| (3, 1) 1971 | Another sorrow has made me thus bold. |
| (3, 1) 1972 | Wilt grant a favour? |
| (3, 1) 1975 | I pray thee, sit by me; |
| (3, 1) 1976 | Nay, but thy arms will hamper thee. |
| (3, 1) 1978 | Let me unarm thee. Nay, it is but just, |
| (3, 1) 1979 | Since thou wilt grant of thy great courtesy |
| (3, 1) 1980 | My little asking, that I should be swift |
| (3, 1) 1981 | To do thee service. {She disarms him.} |
| (3, 1) 1982 | Now come, sit by me |
| (3, 1) 1983 | And I will tell thee what the gift shall be |
| (3, 1) 1984 | Which thou hast granted; is it not? |
| (3, 1) 1986 | I have a maid attendant on myself, |
| (3, 1) 1987 | Who is possessed of love for Agravaine, |
| (3, 1) 1988 | And now he lies the prisoner of thine arms, |
| (3, 1) 1989 | Proved to be false, caught in a calumny, |
| (3, 1) 1990 | And, if thou wilt, upon the edge of death; — |
| (3, 1) 1991 | I ask his life: it is not hard to give |
| (3, 1) 1992 | Out of the riches of the hour of gain |
| (3, 1) 1993 | So small a guerdon. 'Tis a piteous thing |
| (3, 1) 1994 | That one maid's hopes should hang upon the word — |
| (3, 1) 1995 | The chance — flung breath of careless victory! |
| (3, 1) 2006 | Forgive me, Lanval. But there are some men |
| (3, 1) 2007 | Born to be bitter; bred in warlike times, |
| (3, 1) 2008 | Whose only passion is to range the world, |
| (3, 1) 2009 | And by its harshness frame their circumstance. |
| (3, 1) 2010 | Such know no kindness, but are wrought by years |
| (3, 1) 2011 | Until their texture is indifference. |
| (3, 1) 2012 | From them the sorrows, gaieties and change, |
| (3, 1) 2013 | That give the colour to existence, fall |
| (3, 1) 2014 | And are rebutted as the idle waves |
| (3, 1) 2015 | By the calm rocks. Even here they move, |
| (3, 1) 2016 | Behind our pleasures, shadows of grim use. |
| (3, 1) 2017 | And thou art stern, I thought thee one of them. |
| (3, 1) 2019 | Truly I did so: |
| (3, 1) 2020 | I ask thy pardon. |
| (3, 1) 2028 | Tis a kindly gift: |
| (3, 1) 2029 | But, though I thank thee, I do need him not. |
| (3, 1) 2034 | I need him not. I would not speak of him. |
| (3, 1) 2035 | Press me not, Lanval, for I fear thy speech |
| (3, 1) 2036 | Has in it something of the thoughts debased, |
| (3, 1) 2037 | That have their kennels in the courts of kings. |
| (3, 1) 2038 | Never can I shew any favour, smile, |
| (3, 1) 2039 | Look kindly on, or help young enterprise, |
| (3, 1) 2040 | But the foul whispers of the watching herds |
| (3, 1) 2041 | Sneer shame on me. Surely thou didst not |
| (3, 1) 2042 | Think evil of me? |
| (3, 1) 2053 | True, |
| (3, 1) 2054 | As all that's in thee! How could they have said |
| (3, 1) 2055 | Thou wert ungentle, slandered ladies, spoke |
| (3, 1) 2056 | Indifferent of them! |
| (3, 1) 2058 | I thought — |
| (3, 1) 2059 | Was half afraid to ask of thee a gift. |
| (3, 1) 2060 | Report did have it thou wast near a boor! |
| (3, 1) 2062 | Lanval, wilt thou blame? — |
| (3, 1) 2063 | Ye that hold honour high are hard, |
| (3, 1) 2064 | Swift to rebuke. We women may not seek |
| (3, 1) 2065 | To find expression in our little strength, |
| (3, 1) 2066 | So faulty are we and of such slight power, |
| (3, 1) 2067 | Yet we may kindle sleeping things to fire, |
| (3, 1) 2068 | And by awakening form a part of them, |
| (3, 1) 2069 | Till, by good fortune, we may see our spark |
| (3, 1) 2070 | Light such a beacon that its luminance |
| (3, 1) 2071 | Makes all men fairer. Thus I caught men up, |
| (3, 1) 2072 | Tested and failed, and then cast them aside. |
| (3, 1) 2073 | Have I done wrong? |
| (3, 1) 2075 | Thou |
| (3, 1) 2076 | Wilt never fail me: Lanval, bear my badge; |
| (3, 1) 2077 | Be thou my knight! |
| (3, 1) 2079 | But to refuse me is no courteous act. |
| (3, 1) 2080 | Must I believe the common talk was just? |
| (3, 1) 2081 | I'll not believe it. Thou art not unkind |
| (3, 1) 2082 | Nor cruel. |
| (3, 1) 2084 | Nay, hear! |
| (3, 1) 2085 | I stand apart, the watcher of this court, |
| (3, 1) 2086 | Hungry as any for the spring of worth, |
| (3, 1) 2087 | And I have listened through the dull sour years |
| (3, 1) 2088 | To foolish babbling and vain braggart speech: |
| (3, 1) 2089 | Never have I seen such a one as thee. |
| (3, 1) 2090 | The power men value, state and exercise, |
| (3, 1) 2091 | Is in my handling; honour, worship, all — |
| (3, 1) 2093 | Look at me, Lanval. Have you lust for place, |
| (3, 1) 2094 | Desire for rule, all these are in my gift. |
| (3, 1) 2095 | There shall be nothing, nothing in the world, |
| (3, 1) 2096 | To be denied thee. |
| (3, 1) 2099 | I know your merits well, |
| (3, 1) 2100 | And love you for them. Will you make me speak, |
| (3, 1) 2101 | When any soul should surely recognise |
| (3, 1) 2102 | My meaning? |
| (3, 1) 2104 | Why not? |
| (3, 1) 2105 | Am I not fair? We shall soon forget |
| (3, 1) 2106 | The foolish customs, detriments that bar |
| (3, 1) 2107 | Our intercourse, for what are they to us? |
| (3, 1) 2108 | For I do love thee. Is it shame? What's shame, |
| (3, 1) 2109 | But discipline to suit a baser sort? |
| (3, 1) 2111 | Put me not away, |
| (3, 1) 2112 | For we are lifted to a pinnacle |
| (3, 1) 2113 | Whereon stands nothing but ourselves alone, |
| (3, 1) 2114 | And all else is a sleeping cloud, a mass |
| (3, 1) 2115 | Of gentle, distant, white inconsequence. |
| (3, 1) 2117 | Wherefore? Hast another love? |
| (3, 1) 2119 | What can then impede |
| (3, 1) 2120 | Our loves' progression? If thou lov'st me not, |
| (3, 1) 2121 | My simple passion shall infect thy blood. |
| (3, 1) 2122 | Such fire lives in me that my flesh is flame, |
| (3, 1) 2123 | And I know well, life has no ore to stand |
| (3, 1) 2124 | So fierce a blast, but that its metalled veins |
| (3, 1) 2125 | Must yield their substance. |
| (3, 1) 2129 | What bonds |
| (3, 1) 2130 | Of such convention stand against plain life? |
| (3, 1) 2131 | Can man play master to the natural world, |
| (3, 1) 2132 | Make laws to hold the elements in place? |
| (3, 1) 2133 | Why, it is foolish. Let the passions reign, |
| (3, 1) 2134 | For in their presence all existence stands |
| (3, 1) 2135 | Free and unfettered. |
| (3, 1) 2138 | This is false modesty — |
| (3, 1) 2139 | The state wherein the shackled soul is blind, |
| (3, 1) 2140 | And may not face the common light of day. |
| (3, 1) 2141 | If I can bear it, wilt thou be afraid? |
| (3, 1) 2142 | Come, kiss me, Lanval. I do thee no harm. |
| (3, 1) 2143 | Why art thou harsh? |
| (3, 1) 2145 | Why should I so? |
| (3, 1) 2147 | So be it, Lanval. Fealty's the term; |
| (3, 1) 2148 | A fair excuse; and now I see it clear, |
| (3, 1) 2149 | Life scorns not love unless well fortified |
| (3, 1) 2150 | By love itself. Thou hast a paramour, |
| (3, 1) 2151 | And this aped virtue is the mask of vice. |
| (3, 1) 2152 | Why, I was fool to think there lived a man |
| (3, 1) 2153 | That spotted not his arms with that disgrace. |
| (3, 1) 2154 | I pray thy pardon. I myself prefer |
| (3, 1) 2155 | The common practice that will not disguise |
| (3, 1) 2156 | Humanity beneath the hypocrite: |
| (3, 1) 2157 | And I must think I shall be made a sport, |
| (3, 1) 2158 | A credulous poor being that believed |
| (3, 1) 2159 | In manhood's truth; my love a jest of clowns, |
| (3, 1) 2160 | Worn as a garish triumph in base lists! |
| (3, 1) 2161 | Shall I endure it? |
| (3, 1) 2167 | Insolence? |
| (3, 1) 2173 | Thus do I gall thee! Be it a challenge then! |
| (3, 1) 2174 | Swear to me, Lanval, by the blood of Christ, |
| (3, 1) 2175 | By thine own honour and thy knighthood's oath, |
| (3, 1) 2176 | By everything that can ensure thy soul |
| (3, 1) 2177 | Unto the devil if thou art forsworn — |
| (3, 1) 2178 | Hast thou a love? |
| (3, 1) 2182 | Hast thou not a love? |
| (3, 1) 2183 | A keen desire to any woman? Strange |
| (3, 1) 2184 | Thou dost not answer. Nay, take time, my lord, |
| (3, 1) 2185 | Evasion springs not easily to lips |
| (3, 1) 2186 | That speak of honour; and it is even so, |
| (3, 1) 2187 | The sudden idol of a people's choice, |
| (3, 1) 2188 | The fortunate applauded aspirant |
| (3, 1) 2189 | Has human failings. Nay, I blame thee not, |
| (3, 1) 2190 | Many are thus; shamed to acknowledge sins, |
| (3, 1) 2191 | That — did they know it — are of greater worth |
| (3, 1) 2192 | Than all their virtues. But, I fear, the king |
| (3, 1) 2193 | Is but ill-served with traitors in his court; |
| (3, 1) 2194 | His council, aided by sleek hypocrites, |
| (3, 1) 2195 | Earning rewards of virtue undeserved. |
| (3, 1) 2196 | Therefore I term thee coward, recreant knight, |
| (3, 1) 2197 | A chance-bred upstart of presumption born! |
| (3, 1) 2198 | Thou hast deceived me. Take it as a gain |
| (3, 1) 2199 | That slime can match the sheen of metals true, |
| (3, 1) 2200 | And filthy favours mock clean services. |
| (3, 1) 2201 | Need I say more? I pray thee let me pass! |
| (3, 1) 2203 | Defence! I doubt not there's a pretty talk, |
| (3, 1) 2204 | But I have little patience to endure |
| (3, 1) 2205 | Its full recital. There are taverns near |
| (3, 1) 2206 | And other places of foul ill-repute |
| (3, 1) 2207 | Which can enjoy it. |
| (3, 1) 2210 | If there were excuse, |
| (3, 1) 2211 | What is't to me? Either thou canst not |
| (3, 1) 2212 | Be natural or courteous in thy ways — |
| (3, 1) 2213 | Either thou art a shadow lacking strength; |
| (3, 1) 2214 | Something inhuman that has crept to us, |
| (3, 1) 2215 | Wearing the fashion of a very man, |
| (3, 1) 2216 | And by enchantment gaining men's renown; |
| (3, 1) 2217 | Or else shame bids thee cover up thy life, |
| (3, 1) 2218 | Lest the foul taint of thy dishonoured love |
| (3, 1) 2219 | Smirch thine existence till men turn from thee, |
| (3, 1) 2220 | And all men know thee for the loathsome thing, |
| (3, 1) 2221 | The recreant, base coward and defiled! |
| (3, 1) 2222 | Which shall it be? |
| (3, 1) 2229 | I knew — |
| (3, 1) 2230 | Some drab — |
| (3, 3) 2496 | Thou did'st send for me? |
| (3, 3) 2501 | Thou hast need of me |
| (3, 3) 2502 | For other usage than the tale of hours |
| (3, 3) 2503 | Of solemn counsel, measures, means and ends; |
| (3, 3) 2504 | At least I trust so, for I have no love |
| (3, 3) 2505 | For the gross detail of this governance. |
| (3, 3) 2511 | Do I complain? |
| (3, 3) 2519 | What is it? |
| (3, 3) 2527 | If it must be so |
| (3, 3) 2528 | I shall not care. |
| (3, 3) 2540 | How can I tell? |
| (3, 3) 2548 | True, |
| (3, 3) 2549 | I did behold it. |
| (3, 3) 2558 | Men can gain a cause |
| (3, 3) 2559 | By other methods than their skill or strength. |
| (3, 3) 2561 | Foul means, |
| (3, 3) 2562 | Or else enchantment. |
| (3, 3) 2571 | It will shame thee more |
| (3, 3) 2572 | To lack discernment, find thy judgment false. |
| (3, 3) 2578 | And wherefore not; is it the privilege |
| (3, 3) 2579 | Of kings to be deceived? This man |
| (3, 3) 2580 | That stands so high in all your estimates |
| (3, 3) 2581 | Is but a traitor. |
| (3, 3) 2584 | Can I not shew cause |
| (3, 3) 2585 | For accusation? |
| (3, 3) 2587 | Did not Sir Lanval leave this Court in wrath |
| (3, 3) 2588 | Two years ago? |
| (3, 3) 2591 | He left in wrath unmarked |
| (3, 3) 2592 | Because his merit was unrecognised, |
| (3, 3) 2593 | Or that the wastage of his life had left |
| (3, 3) 2594 | Him no subsistence. Since in idle pomps |
| (3, 3) 2595 | He aped the manner and the shape of kings, |
| (3, 3) 2596 | Scattered his gold to all that asked of him, |
| (3, 3) 2597 | So came at last to be impoverished, |
| (3, 3) 2598 | His fellows' scorn! |
| (3, 3) 2601 | Beggared, he left the court; |
| (3, 3) 2602 | Within three months returned with Prince Geraint, |
| (3, 3) 2603 | Who swore to trace him for some wager made |
| (3, 3) 2604 | With Agravaine. |
| (3, 3) 2608 | It may be so, I know |
| (3, 3) 2609 | That he returned enriched, who had been poor, |
| (3, 3) 2610 | Within three months: now, aided by Geraint, |
| (3, 3) 2611 | He climbs to honour, and his falseness masks |
| (3, 3) 2612 | In easy gifts and prodigal display. |
| (3, 3) 2614 | Whence came this wealth? He will not speak of it, |
| (3, 3) 2615 | Whither he travelled, how he fared or lived. |
| (3, 3) 2624 | But I have a proof. |
| (3, 3) 2626 | Not so, great King, but just that evidence |
| (3, 3) 2627 | Of nature's turning that will bring thee grief. |
| (3, 3) 2628 | Out of the shadow of suspected aims |
| (3, 3) 2629 | I would have woven some sufficient tale, |
| (3, 3) 2630 | Whereby the guilty might find punishment, |
| (3, 3) 2631 | And thine own soul remain unwrung by shame. |
| (3, 3) 2632 | But I have lost the counsel of thy heart, |
| (3, 3) 2633 | And lack thy kindness, even thy belief. |
| (3, 3) 2642 | I would not, my lord, |
| (3, 3) 2643 | Were I not hungry for thine honour's sake, |
| (3, 3) 2644 | Which I see threatened. |
| (3, 3) 2646 | 'Tis true. |
| (3, 3) 2647 | But one hour since I bade Sir Lanval come |
| (3, 3) 2648 | Into my presence. I did then intend |
| (3, 3) 2649 | To plead with him, since he had won the life |
| (3, 3) 2650 | Of his opponent. He had power and right |
| (3, 3) 2651 | Over his person. |
| (3, 3) 2657 | Sire, I found Lynette, |
| (3, 3) 2658 | One of my maidens, loved Sir Agravaine, |
| (3, 3) 2659 | And was so moved by pity to this course. |
| (3, 3) 2661 | I could not know, I liked Sir Lanval not, |
| (3, 3) 2662 | And thought him cruel. |
| (3, 3) 2664 | Nay. |
| (3, 3) 2666 | But after that I spoke with him alone. |
| (3, 3) 2668 | Canst not guess th' offence? |
| (3, 3) 2669 | Must I be forced to put my shame in words? |
| (3, 3) 2670 | Sire, thou dost know the baseness that's in man, |
| (3, 3) 2671 | And how success can feed his soul with flame, |
| (3, 3) 2672 | Until the fever of his arrogance |
| (3, 3) 2673 | Inflames his senses, and destroys restraint |
| (3, 3) 2674 | In all his nature. |
| (3, 3) 2678 | Can I say nothing, then, |
| (3, 3) 2679 | With truth in it? |
| (3, 3) 2689 | Yet thou wilt not believe |
| (3, 3) 2690 | Men grow infected? |
| (3, 3) 2740 | Now wilt thou believe? |
| (3, 3) 2741 | Nay! 'tis no matter, let all seek my love; |
| (3, 3) 2742 | Each battle-brute entreat me like a drab. |
| (3, 3) 2743 | How should mine honour or thine own outweigh |
| (3, 3) 2744 | One lance's value? Let him, being scorned, |
| (3, 3) 2745 | Taunt me with praises of his paramour, |
| (3, 3) 2746 | Swear her handmaidens are more fair than I. |
| (3, 3) 2747 | What is an insult, or gross laughter's scorn, |
| (3, 3) 2748 | Beside the merit of a practised sword? |
| (3, 3) 2749 | The King of Britain, lauded through the world, |
| (3, 3) 2750 | Must prostitute his honour to the need |
| (3, 3) 2751 | Of keeping servants. Oh, the shame of it! |
| (3, 3) 2767 | Nay, touch me not, for I have lost thy love — |
| (3, 3) 2768 | For such a loss there is no remedy — |
| (3, 3) 2769 | And I am lonely, left to be the butt |
| (3, 3) 2770 | Of scorn and insult. |
| (3, 3) 2776 | I did so believe, |
| (3, 3) 2777 | And had such comfort of the fancied love, |
| (3, 3) 2778 | Thou might'st have borne me, that I cannot bear |
| (3, 3) 2779 | The trickery of words that have no truth. |
| (3, 3) 2781 | I think thou would'st be kind, |
| (3, 3) 2782 | But it is better to be honest now. |
| (3, 3) 2791 | The same farce of words. |
| (3, 3) 2793 | Nay, touch me not, for I will not be gulled |
| (3, 3) 2794 | By any speech. |
| (3, 3) 2796 | I do refuse thy love. Now be assured |
| (3, 3) 2797 | And tell me that denial matters not, |
| (3, 3) 2798 | And thou dost love a hundred fairer maids |
| (3, 3) 2799 | Than I. So slow! Thy very lackeys hold |
| (3, 3) 2800 | That answer at their lips. |
| (3, 3) 2802 | Nay see, my lord, |
| (3, 3) 2803 | Since love is perished I must use this shame |
| (3, 3) 2804 | To trick thy quiet to a nobler fire. |
| (3, 3) 2810 | And thou lov'st me still? |
| (3, 3) 2813 | No, touch me not. |
| (3, 3) 2816 | Well, perchance! |
| (3, 3) 2817 | Yet how can I believe it, give me proof. |
| (3, 3) 2819 | Some earnest that this love |
| (3, 3) 2820 | Looks further than its consummation, and enrings |
| (3, 3) 2821 | My life. |
| (3, 3) 2823 | If protestation's true, |
| (3, 3) 2824 | Its act is fulness. If our lives are twin, |
| (3, 3) 2825 | My shame is thine. I come to sanctuary, |
| (3, 3) 2826 | Hang to the ring of honour and demand |
| (3, 3) 2827 | More than protection. I have been ashamed, |
| (3, 3) 2828 | Hunted of clashing, careless, stranger knights, |
| (3, 3) 2829 | Both sought and scorned. Shall I appeal in vain? |
| (3, 3) 2830 | The King is justice and my husband's man, |
| (3, 3) 2831 | Surely, I cannot be denied of both. |
| (3, 3) 2833 | Judgment. Is it not enough |
| (3, 3) 2834 | That I should love — that one should offer love |
| (3, 3) 2835 | And thus offend me? Must I bear as well |
| (3, 3) 2836 | His constant presence, the vile memory |
| (3, 3) 2837 | Of insolence? |
| (3, 3) 2842 | And I have none! I am not gentle, sweet, |
| (3, 3) 2843 | Nor worth a kindness! I was sure thy love |
| (3, 3) 2844 | Ran not beyond the sating of thine hours |
| (3, 3) 2845 | Of leisure. Now at least we have this gain: |
| (3, 3) 2846 | Henceforth we shall not any more pretend, |
| (3, 3) 2847 | But hold our course apart. {She goes away from him.} |
| (3, 3) 2849 | I'll not be handled. If thou must fondle, send |
| (3, 3) 2850 | For this beloved and foul-speaking knight. |
| (3, 3) 2851 | Nay, let me speak. Since thou wilt do for me |
| (3, 3) 2852 | Nothing, since nothing is the very weight |
| (3, 3) 2853 | Of all my honour, since all ill conceived |
| (3, 3) 2854 | Against me's nothing, let this nothing be |
| (3, 3) 2855 | Hereafter our relation. So from this time forth |
| (3, 3) 2856 | Between us — nothing! {She moves away.} |
| (3, 3) 2869 | My King, I thought thou hadst forgotten me |
| (3, 3) 2870 | And feigned a love from kindness. |
| (3, 3) 2873 | We'll forget it. |