Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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CAMBER. Vex not thou Thine old hoar head with care to learn of me This. Great is time, and what he wills to be Is here or ever proof may bring it: now, Now is the future present. If thy vow Constrain thee not, yet would I know of thee One thing: this lustrous love-bird, where is she? What nest is hers on what green flowering bough Deep in what wild sweet woodland? DEBON. Good my lord, Have I not sinned already--flawed my faith, To lend such ear even to such royal suit? CAMBER. Yea, by my kingdom hast thou--by my sword, Yea. Now speak on. DEBON. Yet hope--or honour--saith I did not ill to trust the blood of Brute Within thee. Not prince Hector's sovereign soul, The light of all thy lineage, more abhorred |
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