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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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