Chastelard, a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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MARY CARMICHAEL. I am not sure: The red runs over to your face's edge. DARNLEY. Give me one word; nay, lady, for love's sake; Here, come this way; I will not keep you; no. --O my sweet soul, why do you wrong me thus? MARY HAMILTON. Why will you give me for men's eyes to burn? DARNLEY. What, sweet, I love you as mine own soul loves me; They shall divide when we do. MARY HAMILTON. I cannot say. DARNLEY. Why, look you, I am broken with the queen; This is the rancor and the bitter heart That grows in you; by God it is nought else. Why, this last night she held me for a fool- Ay, God wot, for a thing of stripe and bell. I bade her make me marshal in her masque- I had the dress here painted, gold and gray (That is, not gray but a blue-green like this)- She tells me she had chosen her marshal, she, |
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