MARY CARMICHAEL.
Blue--
I know, blue scarfs. I never liked that knight.

MARY HAMILTON.
Me? I know him? I hardly knew his name.
Black, was his hair? no, brown.

MARY SEYTON.
Light pleases you:
I have seen the time brown served you well enough.

MARY CARMICHAEL.
Lord Darnley's is a mere maid's yellow.

MARY HAMILTON.
No,
A man's, good color.

MARY SEYTON.
Ah, does that burn your blood?
Why, what a bitter color is this read
That fills your face! if you be not in love,
I am no maiden.

MARY HAMILTON.
Nay, God help true hearts!
I must be stabbed with love then, to the bone,
Yea to the spirit, past cure.