Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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page 40 of 141 (28%)
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Who keep my brother's door or guard his gate?
A lordling--princeling--one that stands to wait - That lights him back to bed or serves at board. Old man, if yet thy foundering brain record Aught--if thou know that once my sire was great, Then must thou know he left no less to me, His youngest, than to those my brethren born, Kingship. DEBON. I know it. Your servant, sire, am I, Who lived so long your sire's. CAMBER. And how had he Endured thy silence or sustained thy scorn? Why must I know not what thou knowest of? DEBON. Why? Hast thou not heard, king, that a true man's trust Is king for him of life and death? Locrine Hath sealed with trust my lips--nay, prince, not mine - His are they now. CAMBER. |
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