Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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What man may say it? and least of all may kings.
ROSAMUND. What hast thou done that man should hate thee--man Or woman? ALBOVINE. Which of us may answer, Nought? ROSAMUND. Thou might'st have made me--me, my father's child - Harlot and slave: thou hast made me wife and queen. ALBOVINE. Thee have I loved; ay, and myself in thee, Who hast made me more than king and lord, being thine. ROSAMUND. Courtesy sets on kings a goldener crown That sits upon them seemlier. ALBOVINE. Courtesy! Truth. Hark thee, boy, and let thy Hildegard |
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