Becket and other plays by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Or out _and_ die.
And what hast thou to do with this Fitzurse? ROSAMUND. Nothing. He sued my hand. I shook at him. He found me once alone. Nay--nay--I cannot Tell you: my father drove him and his friends, De Tracy and De Brito, from our castle. I was but fourteen and an April then. I heard him swear revenge. BECKET. Why will you court it By self-exposure? flutter out at night? Make it so hard to save a moth from the fire? ROSAMUND. I have saved many of 'em. You catch 'em, so, Softly, and fling them out to the free air. They burn themselves _within_-door. BECKET. Our good John Must speed you to your bower at once. The child Is there already. ROSAMUND. Yes--the child--the child-- O rare, a whole long day of open field. |
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