I know not if she love me.

ROSAMUND.

Thou shalt know.
But this thou knowest: I may not give thee her.

ALMACHILDES.

I would not take her from the Lord God's hand
If hers were given against her will to mine.

ROSAMUND.

A man said that: a manfuller than men
Who grip the loveless hands of prisoners. Well
It must be with the bride whose happier hand
Lies fond and fast in thine. Our Hildegard,
Being free and noble as Albovine and we,
Born one with us in race and blood, and thence
Our equal in our sole nobility,
Must well be won by noble works, and love
Whose light is one with honour's.

ALMACHILDES.

Queen, may I
Perchance not win it? I know not.

ROSAMUND.