Becket and other plays by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The manner of his death, and all he said.
[_Exeunt_ HERBERT _and_ BECKET. ELEANOR. Fitzurse, that chart with the red line--thou sawest it--her bower. FITZURSE. Rosamund's? ELEANOR. Ay--there lies the secret of her whereabouts, and the King gave it to his Chancellor. FlTZURSE. To this son of a London merchant--how your Grace must hate him. ELEANOR. Hate him? as brave a Soldier as Henry and a goodlier man: but thou-- dost thou love this Chancellor, that thou hast sworn a voluntary allegiance to him? FlTZURSE. Not for my love toward him, but because he had the love of the King. How should a baron love a beggar on horseback, with the retinue of three kings behind him, outroyalling royalty? Besides, he holp the King to break down our castles, for the which I hate him. ELEANOR. For the which I honour him. Statesman not Churchman he. A great and sound policy that: I could embrace him for it: you could not see the |
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