to a court where without wit power is nought. Who may foresee the
future? Marry, that was a wise ancient fable, that he who seized and
bound Proteus could extract from the changeful god the prophecy of the
days to come. Yea! the man who can seize Fate can hear its voice
predict to him. And by my own heart and brain, which never yet
relinquished what affection yearned for, or thought aspired to, I
read, as in a book, Anne, that thou shalt be mine; and that where wave
on yon battlements the ensigns of Beauchamp, Monthermer, and Nevile,
the Boar of Gloucester shall liege it over their broad baronies and
hardy vassals."